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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 281997 


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‘Jowell opposes tobacco decision’ 


Be Jni Sherman 

CHIEF POLITICAL 

CORRESPONDENT ' 

TONY BLAIR came under 
renewed .{ResuR' over the 
Fbnnula One affair yesterday 
as two Canbnans committees 
strongly criticised his-derision 
to exempt motor racing from 
the tobacco sponsorriup ban. 

The Omamons Health and 
European Legislation Com¬ 
mittees rushed but reports 
seriously, questioning the . 
Prime Minister's justification 
for the special treatment for 
Formula One. 

The repots from the two 
committees, both heavily Lab- 
our doraSiuded,;xnaik the first 1 
time that the Government has ' 
faced criticism-by a select 

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The HealthSetect Commit 
tee vehemently opposed the. 
Prime Minister’sderision to 
make Formula One a special 
case and recommended that it _ 
should have to ftod.alternative 
sponsors, fike other 'sports. 

In a move which wiD irifurir;'- 
ate Donning Street, Dagg| 
HinchcSFe. the Labour cW 
mhtee. chairman su^ested 
that Tessa JawdL the Health - 
Minister, -who., has beenV 
crossexanriDed by both com¬ 
mittees. did not support the . 
decision taken by Mr Blair to 
seek a permahmt- exemption, 
for Formula One, and was 
overruled. In a one-page 
report; produced within hours 
of Ms JoweO’Sappearancevlbe 
committee saidt.“We.are par- > 
ticularly concerned aitheGov- 
eramenTs proposal to seek an ; 
EC directive, which contains 
provision far a permanent . 
exemption for RirOiula One. 


Secret fluid for 
Beckett office 

Margaret Beckett is receiving 
fmancal assistance from a 
blind trust set up before the 
election, despite a pledge by 
the : Labour leadership to 
publicise all its donors. The 
President of the Board of 
Trade is using the confiden¬ 
tial source of money to help to 
run her constituency office, 
which is managed by her 
husband._Page 2 


We believe that Formula One 
should be placed under the 
same pressure as other sports - 
to 7. 1 seek:-- alternative 
sponsorship." 

• Mr Hinchdifie later said 
that ; Ms. Jowell had cam¬ 
paigned passionately to re¬ 
move tobacco•. advertising 
sponsorship and had. argued 
the. case when . she was a 
member of the committee: 
bersdl “Ibefieve flat she’s in 
;a situation she doesn't believe, 
M herself. ■- 7be0eve that the ■ 
detistob is something that she 


She hadn’t been landed m this 
position," Mr Hmfbcfifie said. 
TheCommittee cn European 
Dotationjsaid exemption for 
Formula One “deserve doser 
examination:''' The 'report- 
questions the Government’s 
assarion that. 50.000 jobs 
would be last if Formula One 
was -forced out of Europe, ft 
sa^s it would be nearer 8.000. 

.“We find that the : most 
difficult question to answer is 
snuplythis: why should For¬ 
mula One be singled out for 


anatemp&m?" 

last night the Prime Minis¬ 
ter^ spokesman said that die 
aim was to get a European 
..directive on tobacco sponsor¬ 
ship agreed. The approach, 
the policy objective has always 
been the same: to get a ban on 
tobacco ontobacco advertising 
and sponsorship," he said. 
The Government hit trouble 
on a second front yesterday 
when it emerged that 120 MPs 
have written a private letter to 
Gordon Brown opposing his 
decision to cut lone parent 
benefits by up fo'£H a week 
and urging him to rethink. 
But tiw Prime Minister’s 
spokesman insisted that there 
would be no bowing id pres¬ 
sure on the issue. The Gov¬ 
ernment has got to govern and 
take decisions that all sorts of 
people might not like from 
time to tune, " he said-. 

The private letter to Gordon 
Brown, said id be signed by 
120; MPS, argues that the 
policy should be shelved until 
the government has had time 
to assess its welfare to work 
p rogra mm afo encourage lone 
. patents So fo'jaba. MPs pri- 
vatdy argue tiat it should be 
delayed for six or 12 months. 
The letter which is believed to 
be have been signed by some 
principal private secretaries 1 
• ■who are not allowed topubbe- 
ly: oppose government 
poUcylwas sent after Mr 
, Brown’s a n nouncement • on. 
^lSdcare on Tuesday. 

The.' backbenchers have 
made dear that the oot-of-' 
school childcare package will 
do little to help lone parents 
with under school age child¬ 
ren or those who do not want 
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Jailed rapist 
can sue woman 
who claimed 
harassment 

By Tim Jones, Frances Gibb and Joanna Bale 


A CONVICTED rapist ac¬ 
cused of harassing a woman 
with letters and phone calls 
from prison was yesterday 
given permission id sue her for 
libel for writing to the police 
about his behaviour. 

Lynne Griffiths was said 1o 
be "devastated and bewil¬ 
dered" by the decision by the 
Court of Appeal in which costs 
were also awarded against 
her. 

David Daniels’s earlier at¬ 
tempt to sue her was thrown 
out in the High Court an 
abuse of process designed to 
harass the woman with "no 
prospect of success". 

But yesterday, in a ruling 
which has far-reaching impli¬ 
cations for the legal status of 
written complaints from the 
public to the police, the Apeal 
Court said he had the right to 
sue. 

The ruling is at odds with 
one from the same court in 
July which said that witnesses 
who make statments in con¬ 
nection with possible criminal 
proceedings are entitled to 
immunity from any dvfl ac¬ 
tion brought on the basis of 
their statements. 

Daniels. 43. was sentenced 
to life imprisonment in 1983 
for one charge of rape and 
three of attempted rapes. For a 
year he terronsed a district of 
Swansea and was dubbed he 
Beast of Mount Pleasant Hill. 

Armed with a flick knife, he 
pounced on girls as they 
walked up the hill or attacked 
them after offering them lifts 
in his car. He threatened to cut 
the breasts off one girl and 
stabbed another girl in her 
thighs. 

Mrs Griffiths, a bank clerk, 
only knew Daniels because he 
served her while he was 
employed at a local news¬ 
agents dose to where she 
worked. But Daniels began 


writing to her as soon as he 
was jailed claiming they had a 
relationship which never be¬ 
came physical He also wrote 
to her husband asking him to 
get her to sign an admission to 
help him gain his release. 

Mrs Griffiths complained to 
the police "in desperation" 
after receiving numerous let¬ 
ters and telephone calls from 
Daniels while he was at 
Gartree prison. 

In a statement to the court 
she said: "The constant har¬ 
assment was affecting the 
health and happiness of my 
family." In 1994. Daniels’s 
application for release was 
turned down by the parole 
board which said his feelings 
for Mrs Griffiths were 
"pathological." 

He then tried to sue Mrs 
Griffiths for libel daiming her 
letter to police had led the 
parole board to conclude that 
he was mentally unstable and 
would be a danger to her if he 
was released. 

Cherie Booth. QC argued 
that the letter to South Wales 
Police was libellous and he 
should have the chance to sue 
her and cross-examine her in 
court so the truth of his claims 

Continued on page 2. col 5 



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in Guinness report 

By George Sivell and Paul Dgrman : 


INSPECTORS from the De-* 
partment of Trade and Indus¬ 
try accuse-, the , main 
participants in foe G uinn ess - 
affair qf “an enterprise ,of 
deception” in their report pub? ■ 
fished yesterday, tel years 
after it was commissioned. . 

Although further prosecu¬ 
tions are unfikely; the report 
cast a cloud mac C&by prac¬ 
tices. The inspectors accuse 
those involved of l&vyrocal: 
disregard for laws and regufe-. 
dons,., a cavalier - misuse - of _ 
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Rut MargartS Beckett,- Res¬ 
ident of the Board of Trade; 
said none of foe key figures 
. criticised would be disquali¬ 
fied from being company dir 
rectors. Uie-'DTI said Mrs. 
: Bedcett had received strong 
legal advice -suggesting • that 
she would betmable to sustain 
. an application for disqualifica¬ 
tion of anyof those criticised in 
the report ... 

. -David-Donaldson, QC, and 
fan Watt, an accountant, who 
hadwait-for. criminal pro¬ 
ceedings to : end before they 
- could publish their 300 -page 
: report, said that, even after ten 
years, some of their findings 
tteuld s^xick foe City. 


for the Guinness camp artifi¬ 
cially .to raise the price of the 
brewing giant's shares in the 
dosing. stages of its bitter 
battle, for DistiHexs, the Scot¬ 
tish drinks company, in 1986. 

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Spencer goes 
on the attack 

Eari Spencer went on the 
offensive yesterday by reveal¬ 
ing thesize of tbe dtvoree deal 
he has offered his estranged 
wife, Victoria, and encourag¬ 
ing his dorest friend to defend 
his reputation. 

David Horion-Fawkes dis- 
. missed allegations that the 
eari had bad a dozen affairs 
as "malicious". — . — . — Page 3 

Hunting backers 
gather for vigil 

Hunting supporters began a 
24-hour vigfl _outride West¬ 
minster as MF$ prepared to 
give a big Commons majority 
today to a backbench Bill to 
on daw fox-hunting. Michael 
Foster’s B31 is highly unlikely 
to become law. The Govern¬ 
ment again insisted that it 
would not provide extra 
time——-Pag® 7 

Minimum wage 
deal offered 

The Government yesterday 
offered for the first time in 
Britain to all employees an 
entitlement to be paid not less 
than a legal minim am wage 
rate. Ministers proclaimed 
that (hey were delivering mi 
one of Labour's key election 
pledges as they launched the 

legislation---Page 27 

Leading artide, page 21 

‘Sink Britannia’ 
says Princess 

The. Princess Royal’s appeal 
for Britannia to be scuttled 

ami not preserved as a tourist 

attraction has left foe Govern¬ 
ment — -which had decided 
scrapping the yacht would 
cause public outrage — in a 
dilemma. The Princess has 
said that she fears the yacht 
would not be maintained 
properly in private - 
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Paula Yates with her daughter Heavenly Hixaani arriving at the cathedral yesterday 

Tears and rock music 
at Hutchence funeral 


From Roger Maynard in Sydney 


A DISTRAUGHT Paula Yates 

said goodbye to her partner. 
Michael Hutchence, at a mov¬ 
ing and sombre but colourful 
funeral in Sydney yesterday. 

Friends had to support Ms 
Yates as she entered Si An¬ 
drew's Cathedral for the hour- 
long sendee for her rode star 
lover, who was found hanged 
aged 37 in his hotel suite at the 

weekend. . . 

■ Ms Yates cradled their 16- 
mon£h-dd daughter, Heaven¬ 
ly Hiraani Tiger lily, as she 
sat in the front pew. Occasion¬ 
ally the service became too 
much for her and she tad to 
be comforted. She did not 
wear the wedding dress 
bought for her planned mar¬ 
riage to Hutchence — which 
she had said she would dye 
black for the funeral Instead 
she wore a sleeveless, knee- 
length, white-floralpattemed 

blade dress. - 

Thousands of fans stood 
outside foe cathedral as the 
singer’s coffin, adorned with a 
single yellow tiger lily and 500 
blue irises, arrived. 

About 1,200 mourners had 
seats in foe cathedral, among 
them 200 invited guests, mem¬ 
bers - of Mr Hutchenre’s fam¬ 
ily, friends and his band, 

fNXS. . . 

The mourners included 
Tom Jones, foe singer, Kyiie 


Minogue. the former soap star 
turned singer, who had an 
affair with Mr Hutchence 
several years ago, and one of 
his more recent girlfriends. 
Helena Christiansen, foe 
model. 

At one stage a man jumped 
up from his seat on the 
balcony and shouted exple¬ 
tives. “He was going to do a 
swan dive." said a police 
officer who managed to re¬ 
strain the man. 

The eulogies included one 
from Andrew Fa mss. a fellow 
INXS. member, who urged 
fans - not to copy Mr Hutch- 
ence’s death. Australia has 
one of the worst youth suicide 
rales in the world. 



Hutchence: thousands 
of fans paid tribute 


“Weask foe band’s fans and 
those who are touched by his 
death not to react in any way 
that would hurt themselves." 
he said. “Michael would not 
have wanted that." 

In an emotional tribute, 
Rhett Hutchence said he had 
visited the hotel room where 
his brother had died. “1 spent 
some time in his room foe 
other night to see if it had any 
answers." he said. “It seemed 
a sad room — it definitely 
wasn't Michael" 

Following the hymn The 
Lord's My Shepherd, the 
Dean of Sydney told die 
congregation: “We must thank 
God for the person whose life 
we shared and who made 
memories possible." 

The service closed with the 
coffin being carried out by foe 
surviving members of INXS 
and Rhett, as the band's song. 
Never Tear Us Apart re¬ 
sounded through the cathe¬ 
dral. Still clutching her 
daughter. Ms Yates followed 
as the family departed for a 
private cremation ceremony. 
Minutes later, the last person 
to see Mr Hutchence alive, the 
actress Kym Wilson, followed. 
She spent four hours in the 
singer's Ritz Carlton sufre in 
the early hours of Saturday. 

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IT TAKES an old pro to show hcrw 
things are done. During exchanges 
on the single currency, but keen to 
ask about single mothers. Dennis 
Skinner reminded MRs that Marks 
& Spencer was planning to accept 
payment in euros — “and some of 
these customers wfl] be single 
mothers". 

The Speaker sighed. “And some 
single mothers will have less to 
spend, because ..." And he was 
away. Gordon Brown stonewalled, 
of course, but Skinner had got it off 
his chest. 

Brown stonewalls well. Alistair 
Darling, his impressive Chief Sec¬ 
retory, is learning. Darling, who 
has removed his beard, grows 
smoother at every session . 

But yesterday he slipped. Invited 


by the charmingly-named Howard 
Stoat? (Lab, Dartford) to say a few 
words on the wonderfulness of the 
Government, Darling thought he 
heard a Tory jeer. This stung 
him. 

"They scoff,” he said, “but die 
stock market is up, a sign that 
business has absolute confidence 
in this Government" [my italics]. 

Stop! Stock markets can go 
down. One day this one will Then 
enemies will ask whether — since 
the Chief Secretary stated on 
November 27, 1997, that a rising 
market shows business "has abso¬ 
lute confidence" in Government — 
he now accepts that business has 
no confidence. Read my lips, Mr D; 
“A-v-o-i-d h-o-s-t-a-g-e-s t-o 
f-o-r-t-u-n-e." 



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I have been making a study of the 
filings politicians wish they never 
said. Sometimes (as in Mr Dar¬ 
ling's case) the mistake lies not in 
the remark, which may be true, but 
in the making of It—which may be 
unwise. 

But there is a quite different 
category of political mis-ufferance. a 
a category for which the session “ 
which followed later that afternoon 
looks likely to have yielded a rich 
harvest When politicians commit 
themselves to opinions about tech* 
nical matters they do not under¬ 


stand, time finds them out David 
Clarke made a statement on "Com¬ 
puters (Millennium Compliance)". 
We gathered this was something to 
do with the problem of getting 
computer year-dates to begin with 
a 2. 

This Sketch does not mode. The 
Midland Bank (quoted yesterday) 
is doubtless right in giving a 
wanting that one business in five 
may go bust But I do not pretend to 
know. MPS pretend. For the Tories. 
Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and 
Amersham) went on so long about 


“embedded systems" and “file cap 
gemini survey" that Skinner shout¬ 
ed. "Hurry up, die millennium's 
arrived." 

Rhodri Morgan (Lab, Cardiff 
West) said this was the biggest 
thing since calendars changed 
from Julian to Gregorian “in 1720 
or whatever". His excitement 
mounted. “An issue the whole - 
House and whole country needs to 
be involved ini" he cried. 

For die Liberal Democrats, Mal¬ 
colm Bruce was reduced by the 
importance of it all to stammering 
“The gap is huge!" and predicting a 
publiospending meltdown. 

And they may all be right, of 
course. But in moments of scepti¬ 
cism, I comfort myself with the 
words of Prime Minister Asquith 


Beckett’s office 
'gets thousands 
from secret trust’ 

By Andrew Pierce, political correspond ent 


MARGARET BECKETT is 
receiving financal assistance 
from a blind trust set up 
before the election, despite a 
pledge by the Labour leader¬ 
ship to publicise the names of 
ail its donors. 

The President of the Board 
of Trade is using the confiden¬ 
tial source of money to hrip to 
run her constituency office, 
which is managed by her 
husband. Leo. in the 
Commons. 

The revelation that a senior 
Cabinet minister has main¬ 
tained a trust fund, which was 
set up when she was in 
Opposition, will be seized on 
by Toiy MPS to try to revive 
the charge of Labour sleaze. 
They will today press Mrs 
Beckett to name the donors or 
close the trust. 

Only yesterday Sir Patrick 
Neill. QC, who replaced Lord 
Nolan as file chairman of the 
Committee on Standards in 
Public Life, confirmed that his 
inquiry into fundraising 
would investigate blind trusts. 

Two Labour MPS and two 
other' individuals are die 
anonymous trustees of the 
Margaret Beckett Research 
and Administration Trust, 
which channels thousands of 


pounds each year into her 
office.The trust is registered in 
the latest Commons register of 
MPs’ interests. 

Tony Blair. Gordon Brown 
and John Prescott, who oper¬ 
ated trusts before the election 
to run their offices, wound 
them up on May i. The 
organiser of Mr Blair's blind 
trust, Michael Levy, was given 
a life peerage after the election. 
The Labour leader has com¬ 
mitted the party to publicising 
the names of all its donors 
who give more than £5,000. 

The money raised by Mrs 
Beckett's trustees is chan¬ 
nelled through the Commons 
foes office to pay the salary of a 
researcher in her Commons 
office. Although file trustees of 
Mr Blair’s blind trust, which 
was thought to have raised at 
least E500.000 a year, were 
publicised, the trustees behind 
Mrs Becketrs fond have not 
been made public: 

Mr Beckett said: They 
would prefer to retain their 
confidentality. They do not 
want to be in the public eye. 
We are happy to respect that” 
Mr Beckett denied that he and 
his wife were in breach of any 
rules, and said that they had 
obtained clearance from the 


Nolan committee. Although 
Mr Beckett said that he would 
not name the donors, he said 
that they were not suitable to 
be compared to Bemie 
Ecclestone, the head of Formu¬ 
la One. who gave the Labour 
Party El million. “They are not 
in that class.” he said. 

Mrs Beckett, once regarded 
as a left-wing firebrand, has 
file use of a grace-and favour 
apartment in Admiralty Arch 
in London as President of the 
Board of Trade. Cabinet 
ministers earn an annual sala¬ 
ry of ES7J851 and receive an 
office allowance of £47,568. 

Sir Gordon Downey, the 
Parlamentary Commissioner 
for Standards, investigated 
Mr Blair's blind trust and 
found no evidence of any 
wrongdoing. The trusts are 
regarded as a legitimate de¬ 
vice for politicians to raise 
finance as they cannot be 
accused of responding to do¬ 
nations if they do not know 
who provided the finance. But 
Sir Gordon was known to be 
unhappy about the arrange¬ 
ment. Members of the new * 
NdU committee are in favour 
of maximum disclosure, in¬ 
cluding the names of file 
trustees. 





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Margaret Beckett with her husband. Lea He declined to name the donors 


on decimal currency (“You would 
have a revolution within a week"), 
those of Mr Scott-Montague, MP, 
in 1903. bn cars fl do not believe 
fiie mUbduetion of motor-cars will 
ever affect file riding of horses). 
Colonel Ashley. MP. Roads Minis¬ 
ter, in 1927 ri do not think it would 
be practicable to introduce pedes¬ 
trian crossings in London1 and 
Major Shaw. MP. in 1936 (T am - 
perfectly convinced, the role of the 
cavalry is as important today 
as it has been throughout 
fiie ages”). . 

□ Read My Lips, a treasury of 
things politicians wish they hadn’t - 
said, compiled by Matthew Parris 
and Phil Mason, is published by- 
Penguin today. • 

Blair ends 
100 years 
of lobby 
secrecy 

By Philip Webster 

TONY . BLAIR brought 100 
years of- official secrecy sur¬ 
rounding relations between 
Downing Sheet and the press ^ 
to an end yesterday by an¬ 
nouncing that from now on, 
his official spokesman would 
go “on the record”. 

Alastair Campbell, Mr 
Blair's press secretary, took a 
microphone and tape-recorder 
to the meeting of the Lobby, 
the 120-strong groupof accred¬ 
ited political c o rresp o ndents, 
which has been in operation at 

Westminster since 1884. There 
have been regular briefings 
for more than 60 years, almost 
always un attributable. 

A 30-minute gathering 
which has often been shroud¬ 
ed in a rather spurious mys¬ 
tery was recorded for the first 
time ... . 

Mr Campbell will be known 
as the Prime Minister’s official 
spokesman. The hope is that 
Ins words will have added 
authority through being an 
on-the-record repres e ntation 
of Mr Blair’s position, and 
that five credibility of anony¬ 
mous sources giving a conflict¬ 
ing. view of the government 
line will be diminished. 

Mr Campbell will not be 
named because, he said, sudi 
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THE Queen's finances are to 
be opened to public scrutiny 
for the first time in a move by 
the Commons public spending 
watchdog to enhance efforts to 
modernise the monarchy. 

Under the radical reform 
plan nearly £50 million of 
taxpayers' money that fi¬ 
nances the Royal Household 
will be open, for inspection by 
the National Audit Office, 
which reports to the Public 
Accounts Committee (PAQ. 

It means that MPs will be 
able to question Palace offici¬ 
als on their expenditure and 
issue critical reports if they 
decide that money is being 
spent unwisely. Government 
departments have been wary 
of the committee's stringent 
powers since the PAC was set 
up by Gladstone in 1861 when 
he was Chancellor. 

Dawn Primarola Financial 
Secretary to the Treasury, is to 
discuss the plan with David 
Davis, the new Conservative 
chairman of the PAC. The 
Government and all the main 
parties appear to be in 
sympathy. 

Mr Davis, Minsher for 
Europe in the last govern¬ 
ment launched the initiative 
within weeks of taking over 


his new job. Hie grants that 
will come under scrutiny are 
the £8.9 million annual Civil 
List which finances the work¬ 
ing expenses of the Queen, the 
Duke of Edinburgh and 
Queen Elizabeth the Queen 
Mother. 

The Queen receives £7.9 
million a year and the Duke 
and the Queen Mother receive 
£500,000 each. Other grants 
are £20.4 million for the royal 
residences and E19.5 minion 
fra- the Queen's transport. The 
grants will be scrutinised by 

Queen's massage-10 

Sir John Bourn, the Comptrol¬ 
ler and Auditor General. 

A senior ministerial source 
said last night that the Gov¬ 
ernment was committed to 
greater transparency in public 
finances. The source pointed 
out that the Government had 
recently removed the “not for 
NAO eyes" stipulation that 
barred the Audit Office from 
examining key areas of public 
finance. 

Mr Davis admitted that the 
plan would be controversial 
but he said it was in the 
interests of the Queen for her 


finances to be scrutinised. He 
said: "The Royal Family is 
making grout efforts to in¬ 
crease transparency and open¬ 
ness in its affairs. Those efforts 
will strengthen public support 
for the monarchy and we can 
all applaud them. Our propos¬ 
als go entirely with the grain.' 
or those efforts." He made 
dear that the Queen's own 
finances should remain 
private. 

The reform comes amid a 
determined effort by the Pal¬ 
ace to be more open, about the 
Queen's finances. The grants 


are audited by Palace accoun¬ 
tants who publish a report 
The Palace .does not publish 
details of the Cml List because 
that is a 'matter for the 
Treasury.^ is understood that 
the Queen is making savings 
that will be declared. 

Mr Davis's proposals have 
won strong support from 
across the political spectrum. 
Robert Madennan, a Liberal 
Democrat member of the fi¬ 
nance committee, hailed the 
reforms _as an important 
modernising step. He said: 
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could be tested to "convince 
the prison authorities he is not 
mad." 

Ms Booth said; "He has 
always maintained there was 
no physical relationship but 
there was a strong affection 
between them which she could 
not acknowledged. He be¬ 
lieves that that was whar led 
him to commit the offence and 
to being misunderstood by the 
psychiatrists." 

Christopher Vosper. repre¬ 
senting Mrs Griffiths, told the 
Appeal Court that Daniels’s 
attempt to launch legs! action 
was a “manifestation of his 
obsession" and he was trying 
to use the courts as a way of 
seeing her are! being in the 
same room as her. 

Sir Brian Neill, giving the 
lead ruling, said that unless he 


can establish the true position 
through a libel action, he "has 
no prospect of correcting this 
misconception and therefore 
no realistic prospect of obtain¬ 
ing parole". 

The judges said immunity 
for dvfl actions against com¬ 
plaints to the police did not 
extend to all the statments 
made by the woman when 
complaining about the man, 
only to those rdatmg to a 
possible offence. While file 
woman's statement alleging 
harassment wens protected, 
under the immunity, her com- _ 
plaints went wider, the judges 
said. 

Their ruling means that in 
future, statements made by 
witnesses to the police will not 
automatically be protected by 
a legal immunity. 

Mis Griffiths's scDator. 


Tim Rees, said; “This is a very 
fine line. It is gang to be very 
difficult for people to help the 
police, to know where they 
stand. 

' “The Court of Appeal, has 
sought to limit the extent of the 
immunity and said that there 
may be. statements made by 
my client in a separate context 
— in this-case to help fixe 
Parole Board— and tint such 
statements are not immune." 

Because Daniels-won yes¬ 
terdays apfwaT against an 
order that, his daim wasr an 
abuse of process, of the co urts, 
fife three judges had to allow 
him hiS costs against Mrs 
Griffiths. 

. Mrs Griffiths’s lawyer, Ann 
Morgan, of Douglas-Jones 
; Mercer in Swansea, said: "My 
client-is - devastated ': and 
bewildered."... 


NEWS IN BRIEF 


Leading 
Unionist 
shot in 
the head 

A' leading unionist was 
shot and aitkaBy wound¬ 
ed in north Belfast last 
night, the victim of what 
appeared to be an inter¬ 
nal loyalist dispute. Tire 
man, named as Jackie 
Mafaood, was shot in the 
head by two mask ed gun- 
nzen in the Gromfin 
Road. 

' The shooting came as 
Northern Ireland's Uni¬ 
onists prepared for a con¬ 
ference at Hatfield House 
in Hertfordshire today 
aimed at uniting David 
Trimble's Ulster Union¬ 
ists and the Democratic 
Unionist and UK Union¬ 
ist parties. 

Opera post 

The Royal Opera House 
yesterday appointed Judy 
Gxahame to sort out its 
troubled image. For the 
past two years she has 
been marketing manager 
of the BBC Proms and 
helped the London Phil¬ 
harmonic Orchestra to 
win ds residency at the 
Festival HalL 

Au pair refusal 

Louise Woodward, who 
was convicted of the man¬ 
slaughter of a baby in her 
care, said she has “no 
intention" of setting her 
story. In a state m e n t re¬ 
leased in Boston, where 
she is living pending her 
appeal. Miss Woodward 
said: "We have turned 
down six-figure offers." 

On-line lottery 

An on-line computer lot¬ 
tery with 50 draws a day 
and a maximum jackpot 
of £25,000 was launched, 
tickets for Pronto*, sold 
initially in pubs and 
dubs, will cost £1 each 
with 20p going to charity. 
But the Government be¬ 
lieves' it wiB encourage 
addictive gambling. 

Forensic tests 

Police searching for 
Gracia Morton, 40, who 
disappeared m west Lon¬ 
don two weeks ago, have 
asked forensic scientists 
to examine certain items. 
Scotland Yard refused to 
comment on a report that 
these include a page from 
a motoring atlas with a 
bloodstained palm print 

Driving purge 

The Government yester¬ 
day signalled a fresh 
assault on drink-driving 
by announcing moves to 
target serious and persis¬ 
tent offenders. Proposals 
to reduce the drink-drive 
limit will also be included 
in a government consult¬ 
ation exercise on cutting 
drink-drive deaths. 

Falkland link 

Falkland Islanders will 
be getting their first live 
television service from 
Britain for Christmas. A 
24-hour satellite link is 
due to begin on Monday 
carrying programmes 
from the BBC and ITV, 
and live football matches 
from Sky. 

Santa's surprise, page 41 

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drinking partner of the 
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Stewart sacked 

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yesterday by reveaSmg the site 
of the divorce deal he. has 
offered his estranged - wife, 
Victoria, and encouraging ins' 
closest friend. TO.(fefehcT his 
reputation.-- 

On die. steps of the Cape 
Town court DaVkJ Horton 1 
Fawkes dismis sed aljfeg&tians 
that the eari bad had* a dozen 
affairs as “malicious". 

Mr Harton-Fawkes. who 
was described as a friend of 
the eari since childhood'and 
manager oflheAMiqm estate, 
was careful not to btarae. 
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Lord Spencer's former lews, 
Chantal Collopy. a fashion 
designer , who is named in die 
divorce petition but is giving 
. evidence for Lady Spencer. 

; “I cannot befieve that Vie- 
: toria herself. whan .1 have- 
known and - liked since she 
.- married CJarles.woulddefib- 
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.. said reading from his pre¬ 
pared" statement. He blamed 
Mrs Coflopy who, he . said, 
'"appeared determined to be¬ 
come the next 'Countess 
Spericer”. 

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his cstnaq?ed wife a 
£311X000- lump sum, - pius- 
£2300 maint e na nce a 
month-far Ae retf oiF her 
fife or until she remarries.' 
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There would be provision 
fbranydm^ find dic'duld^ 
rean needed, indnding 
dodies, equipment, educa¬ 
tion and all health matters., 
but. the deal wottTd be 
reassessed if she r et ur ned 
to Britain.'Lord Spemaert 
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said oottide the court tint 
main tena nc e of £2^500 a 
month would give Lad|jr 
Spencer a higher income 
than that of a judge, th 
South Africa. 


Lady Spencer’s 5ght {or a 
better financial 'deal by having 
the divoreesetiled in England, 
was determined “to 
Charles, down" . 

It vos also announced that 
the earl's expensive legal team 
was surprisingly dropping at¬ 
tempts to prevent South Afri¬ 
can newspapers from covering 
in detail the allegations made 
aguaist him in court 

- Lord Spencer claimed that it 
was not only against Sooth 
African law bur h was also 
harming his children. Official¬ 
ly the earl sakl last night he 
did not want his divorce to 
become “a constitutional 
football". 

He insisted he did not 
dictate what his friend said 
outside die court His spokes- 
man said “he knew David 
wanted to defend his name but 
'■ he bad no idea what he was 
. gang to say". 

Mr Horton-Fawkes said 
that, as a friend of the earl for 
20 years—and as godfather to 
:ohe of the couple’s four child- 

- rtn — he was determined to 
"set tiie record straight". 

Until now he had “admired 
the. way in which Charles and 
Victoria have managed to 
maintain a dvfl and friendly 
relationship". He told of let- 

- ters that Lord Spencer had 
written to her while she was 

- receiving medical" treatment 
for alcohol problems and eat¬ 
ing disorders in which “she 



Countess Spencer outside the court yesterday. She said sbe was in good spirits 


lovingly and touchingly 
thanked him for his tolerance 
and suppon". He added that 
“Charles would never treat the 
mother of his four children in 
a mean or malicious manner. 

“Her welfare and that of his 
children has always been been 
his'utmost c o nc e rn and will 
continue to be so. 1 believe 
Victoria knows this, but her 
advisers don’t 

Friends of the eari have 
been increasingly concerned 


at the ferocity of the allega¬ 
tions against him during four 
days of evidence: They had 
expected the case to be about 
whether thedivonr should be 
heard in London or South 
Africa. 

Yesterday as he sat in court 
in his now trademark black 
suit, tiie eari looked pensive 
and morose. By contrast his 
wife, in a long black dress, 
chatted and joked with her 
legal team and her father who 


sat behind her. When asked by 
one of her legal team if she 
was in good spirits. Lady 
Spencer, who is asking for a 
settlement of £3.75 million, 
replied confidently: “Yes” 

Mrs Collopy refused to com¬ 
ment last night. 

Jeremy Gauntlett, Lady 
Spencer's barrister, said Mr 
Horton-Fawkes's statement 
“would be answered in court”. 
Both women are expected to 
give evidence next week. 



THE appearance of Earl Spencer'S "closest 
and oldest friend". pa the steps of tiie 
Supreme Court in’Cape Town came as a 
surprise yesterday..- 

David Horton-Fawkes was at Eton with 
the earl, and contemporaries remember 
them as inseparable.1be ekri asked him to' 
be best man at his wedding, but he decHneiL 
saying he was afraid of media intrusion- At 
Afthrop he is described as'estate flntaagerrr 

He said yesterday: “l.havg known Charles 
Spencer for 20 years and helped Ipok afterhis 
interests in England for thefiasf three years. 

I have spent nTanyJiappyfla$te at AMmopna^. 
a guest ‘of "Charles :aniF'vSd^ri^L..I am 
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incensed by the lies we have been farced to 
read that 1 am prepared to endure any 
exposure in order to set the record straight 
. and speak out independently. ■ 

. “I first moved to the AJthrop estate, in 
England on April 1. 1995, shortly after tiie 
break-up' of his marriage: Until now I have 
admired the-way in which Charles and 
.. Victoria have managed to maintain a civil 
and friendly nejaticoship. 

. V. “1^would be prepared to remain quiet, had 
'it hot become'abundantly dear that Victoria 
. has been persuaded or advised to use this 
-p^Ucfanimand tiiepnc5pmon of open, court 
to rnal^allegatkxQS against Charier I cannot 
heredf would ddibexme- 


ly stoop to this level. She has been befriended 
by Chantal Collopy. who, when I met her in 
England, appeared determined to become 
tiie next Countess Spencer. 

"Sensational allegations have been made 
against my friend, under the privilege of 
court, winch documents sworn as true by 
Victoria, emphatically contradict. 

. "L was living at AJthrop (when) Charles 
was looking after his four children single- 
handedly, when allegedly these dozen wo¬ 
men" were supposed to hive been cavorting 
with lum — I am utterly amazed by these 
allegations. I know that Charles would never 
treat the mother of his children in a. mean or 



malicious manner." 


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Neighbour 
sent phone 
tapes of 
affair to 
jilted wife 

By Paul Wilkinson 


A PENSIONERS'love affair 
was exposed when calls from 
the husband of a Women’s 
Institute chairman to his 
mistress over a cordless tele¬ 
phone were picked up by a 
neighbour's radio. 

According to Yvonne 
Davison, her 7Zynrdd 
neighbour in South Shields. 
Tyne and Wear. Vernon 
Pearson, made tape record¬ 
ings of her conversations 
with BID Lichfield, 67. The 
recordings were sent to Mr 
Lichfield's wife, Doreen, 
chairman of the Women’s 
Institute in Stapleford. 
Nottinghamshire. 

The first the lovers knew of 
their conversations being re¬ 
corded was when Mrs Lich¬ 
field began divorce pro¬ 
ceedings and information 
from the tapes was used in 
court Police arrested Mr 
Pearson and confiscated 84 
tapes and transcripts, but the 
Crown Prosecution Service 
decided to take no farther 
action. 

Last night Mrs Davison. 
60. a medical receptionist 
whose husband died six years 
ago. said she and Mr Lich¬ 
field began to suspect some¬ 
one was eavesdropping as 
soon as legal procedings 
began. “Doreen always 
seemed to be one step ahead 
of us and seemed to know our 
movements,” sbe said. 

"Every time we went to 
c ourt she was prepared for 
everything that could be 
thrown at her and was armed 
with evidence. They had a 
carrier bag of tapes with 
diem on one occasion.” 

She said she was shocked 
when Police told her Mr 
Pennon had been taping the 
calls. "I thought that aD the 
time be lived here he was the 
friend from next door, but he 
was actually the spy from next 
door." 

Mr Pearson said: “I don’t 
deny that I taped Mrs 
Davison's calls. It was done 
under very special circum- 
stances. I’m not worried 
about tiiis at afi, I haven’t 
done anything wrong." 

Mr Pearson learnt' the 
lichfidds’ address when they 
sent flowers on the death of 
Mrs Davison^ husband. 


Bounties 
‘may help 
recover 
stolen 
millions’ 

By StewaktTenoler 


FINANCIAL “bounty 
hunters" from the City 
should be recruited to trace 
millions of pounds hidden 
away by sophisticated 
criminals, a leading police¬ 
man said yesterday. 

Auditors and accoun¬ 
tants would be paid initial¬ 
ly to start investigations 
but would take a percent¬ 
age of what they recouped, 
making the scheme self- 
financing. 

Sir Geoffrey Dear, an 
Inspector of Constabulary 
and former Chief Consta¬ 
ble of the West Midlands, 
said in a report on the 
National Criminal Intelli¬ 
gence Service that police 
forces currently used 
teams of detectives to trace 
assets, but the work was 
slow and often unproduct¬ 
ive. 

Sir Geoffrey- said that 
action must be taken to 
strip major criminals of 
their money or they could 
become untouchable. He 
also called for laws mod¬ 
elled on American anti- 
Mafia and Irish gang- 
busting legislation which 
would allow the seizure of 
cash or property. 

Sir Geoffrey described 
some of the underworld’s 
multimillionaires investi¬ 
gated by NCIS. One, 
known as “A”, is thought to 
be Curtis Warren, the for¬ 
mer Liverpool drug traf¬ 
ficker. who was worth 
more than £80 million 
when he was caught 

“D" built up a £400 mil¬ 
lion empire through invest¬ 
ing stolen property in 
legitimate property deals 
and moving into the inter¬ 
national underworld. 

Sir Geoffrey said mod¬ 
ern criminals were using 
the latest technology, the 
Internet, encryption of 
messages and electronic 
transfer of funds and “all 
other accessible means to 
protect their gains". The 
global marker had an un- 
• derworld 1 mirror • image 
and British criminals were 
laundering, their assests 
into legal commercial ven¬ 
tures and firms abroad. 



says sex with Serbian interpreter was a disaster 



Tucker, new partner 


‘ BT Michael Horsnell . 

THE'RAF-offioeF accused of mur- 
dering his. wife far the'love of a 
Serbian ^translator .said yesterday 
that the liaison was "a bit of a sexual 
disaster"^ Squadron Leader Nicho¬ 
las. . Tucker, 46.admitted a 
shortlived affair-but told the jury 
that he had'not kilkd his wife 
He announced his intention to 
remarry if acquitted, but the judge 
at Norwich Crown Court declined 
his offer to write down the name of 
Jus -new partner. During two hours 


in the witness box, the officer, who 
me* Dijana Dudokovic. 21, while 
serymg in Bosnia as a United 
Nations * military observer, said: 
“She was very flirtatious, fascinat¬ 
ing to be with, very vivacious, and a 
very good interpreter. I became 
friendly with her. We were just very 
good mends.” - 

A sexual relationship developed 
only when he arranged to bring her 
on leave to England five months 
later. They stayed at tiie RAF Club 
in RccadDlybdfore touring the New 
Forest and. the South Coast. Only 


twice had they made love, near the 
end of their secret week together. "It 
was while we were staying in 
Southampton." he said. “It was a bit 
of a disaster, to put it bluntly. I 
couldn’t hack it. 

“After that, it was the wrong time 
of the month for her. 1 never had 
sexual intercourse with her on any 
other occasion." After the couple 
bad returned independently to Yu¬ 
goslavia. the relationship had re¬ 
verted to a friendship. 

Mr Tucker denies murdering his 
-wife in 1995, when he is alleged to 


have staged a crash. Their car 
plunged into the River Lark, Suf¬ 
folk. as they returned from a pub 
meal. Carol Tucker, 52. was found 
drowned under a bridge. The prose¬ 
cution says that her husband had 
first asphyxiated her. 

Mr Tucker said that he had few 
recollections of tiie accident, which 
was “over in a flash of a second". He 
said: “We were chatting. Carol 
shouted something to the effect 
'Mind the deer’, which we saw in tiie 
road momentarily before me. I 
honestly don’t knew how fast I was 


going, it would have been higher 
than 30mph. 

“Her arm moved, and my recol¬ 
lection is she grabbed tiie steering 
wheel. I say that because the 
movement to the left was more than 
me steering. At that point, 1 saw two 
animals in the road. My immediate 
thought was that they were dogs. 
Perhaps the size of labradors.” 

He retained three pictures in his 
memory: the animals, the reflection 
of headlights shining on weeds on 
the riverbank and water cascading 
down the windscreen. Mr Tucker 


said he telephoned Ms Dudokovic 
in Switzerland, where she now lives 
with her husband, two days after 
the accident to tell her of his wife's 
death. 

“Her immediate reaction was she 
thought 1 was playing some kind of 
sick joke, but then she was utterly 
dumbfounded and shocked". He 
agreed he made several phone calls 
to her. partly because of concern 
over events in Yugoslavia. He 
continued to telephone her as a 
friend. 

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IN THE rich history of -rode star 
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dep death fits a pattern that will ensure 
^jfos place in the music industry's hall of 
fame for years to come. In an industry 
where premature death; is- a pre¬ 
requisite for heroism, he has already 
gamed a degree of immortality. 

While there are still many unan¬ 
swered questions about die events 
surrounding tfie singer's final hours, 
police have pieced together.* remark¬ 
ably detailed picture of what happened 
before and after his tragic end. 

At 630pm an Friday, . . Michaels 
father Kell Hutdience reserved ajahle 
at' the -Taste of India restaurant in 
Sydney for a family dinger. They; 
arrived: together- at 7.45piR-«asua^^ 


dressed and smiling and took a 
window. table. Ashley. Totani. the 
manager, said: “Usually with these 
kind of people, the big stars, they like to 
sit wife their backs to the room. He 
didn’t He sat looking into die restau¬ 
rant He didn’t try to hide aiway at aH 
He was very, very open and relaxed 
and natural." 

Michad did not eat much and at one 
stage in foe evening his father ap¬ 
peared to show some concern. He put 
his hand on that of his son and 
reroarked; “I’m very worried about you 
Michael. Is everything afl right?" 
Michael replied: “Dad. Pm fine." 

Kell drove his son back to foe Ritz 
Carlton Hotel at about 11pm. At about 
1140pm Hutdience went info a bar at 
-Jbe hotel,-which is. m the exclusive 
^ydney harbourside suburb of Double 
'/Bay.Hehad^ -drink with some friends 


and applauded the female singer. Just 
before midnight Hutcbence and Kym 
Wilson, the Australian actress, took the 
lift to the rock star's fifth floor suite. 
She was not spotted again until she left 
ar 4am. For the next five hours, hold 
records show that Hutdience made 
several telephone calls from his hotel 
roam. He is bdived to have spoken to 
Paula Yates and Bob Geldbf. 

At 7am on Saturday he telephoned a 
friend, Michelle Benner, and arranged 
to meet her for breakfast She was 
asleep in bed so he left a message on 
her answering machine that said: “If* 
seven odock. I need to talk to you. 
Goodnight-” Michelle arrived at the 
Ritz Carlton just before 10am but failed 
tQ get an answer from his room. She. 
arranged for a note to be slid under his- 
dbor and left. 

At U-^am a maid used her pass key • 


to enter Hutchence’s suite. Inside she 
found his body hanging from a leather 
belt attached to a spring door hinge. 

Shortly after noon on Saturday 
police and ambulance officers arrived 
and declared Michael Hutdience 
dead. There were empty beer bonles. 
cocktail glasses and a bottle of French 
Champagne in foe room. Police 
sources said foe bed had been stripped 
bade and there was evidence of sexual 
actitivity having taken place, but they 
could not say when. 

It was some days before Kym Wilson 
gave a statement to police, but she fold 
friends that Michael appeared to have 
been in a very positive mood and gave 
no indication of wanting to take his life. 

A post manem examination revealed 
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HOME NEWS 7 


Hunt lobby attacks ‘emotional blackmail’ 


Supporters of hunting gathered for 
a last blast of defiance before MPs 
cast their votes in the Commons 
today, reports Michael Hornsby 


PRO-HUNT campaigners ac- 

their opponents of “emo¬ 
tional blackmail" yesterday as 
they faced the prospect of a 
resounding defeat in today's 
Second reading vote in the 
Commons on a Private Mem¬ 
bers Bill to ban their sport. 

They were resigned to a 
large majority in favour of the 
Bill, and were relying an the 
Government to refuse to allo¬ 
cate enough time for the 
legislation to complete its 


Rofatn Hanbury-Tenison, 
leader of the Countryside Alli¬ 
ance. the umbrella body for all 
field sports, said: “We have 
seen anti-hunt groups spend¬ 
ing up to £5 million on 


MaQaHeu: said she had 
never seen such anger 


misleading advertisements in 
what amounts to a campaign 
of emotional blackmaiL". 

Even if 73 per cent of the 
population s u pported a ban. 
as some polls suggested, that 
still left Z7 per cent who did 
not. "Thai is about&5 million 
people, or about two million 
more than elected the Labour 
Party at the last election. Some 
minority " he said. 

Baroness Mallaiieu. a Lab¬ 
our member of the House of 
Lords and leader of a small 
group in the party opposed to 
a hunting bah. said she had 
never encountered such anger 
and determination among 
country people as had been 
arousedbythe BiEL sponsored 
by Michael Foster. Labour 
MP for Worcester. She said: 
"Millions of people are saying 
that they do not want to live in 
a country which is governed 
by majority dictation.” 

About 150 country sports 
workers and supporters began 
a 24-hour vigil yesterday near 
the House of Commons in. 
protest against the Wild ' 
Mammals (Hunting . .with 
Dogs) BilL which would make 
hunting fbx. deer, hare and 
mink & criminal offence sub¬ 
ject to a-maxhnum fine of 
ESjOOO or imprisonment for up 
to six months. ■ ■ 

Among them was Mark 
Allen, from Stratford-on- 
Avon. with his. two hunting 
dogs. He said: “I am just a 


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labourer who earns £60 a day.. 
Hunting is one of the mast 
socially mixed pastimes in the 
whole of die country and it is 
outrageous that it is a socialist 
Government that is trying to 
ban hunting." 

In a letter to MPs. the 
Countryside Alliance said 
hunting was the best and most 
humane way of controlling 


from global warming 

ByNigel Hawkes. science editoxland Nick Nuitall 


EUROPE should prepare for 
temperatures to fall to Arctic 
levels, even though meteorolo¬ 
gists have declared 1997 the 
Earth's hottest year on record, 
ah American scientist says. 

Wallace Broecker, of Co¬ 
lumbia University in New 
York, says the effect of global 
warming on die North Atlan¬ 
tic could disrupt the “motors 
that drives ocean circulation, 
if so, the Gulf Stream would 
be turned off and winter 
temperatures in northern 
Fbarope would fall by at least 
IwE within a decade. Britain 
would be as cold as 
Spitzbergai, 600 miles inside 
the Arctic Circle. 

Meteorological Office fig¬ 
ures show that this year will 
be 0.43C warmer drain the 30- 
year average. 

Ocean currents, including 
the Gulf Stream, are driven by 
a process calledihe thennaha- 
line circulation. The cold, salty 


water of die North Atlantic is 
die driving force, sinking to 
the ocean bottom and pushing 
water through the world's 
oceans like a huge plunger. 
The result as far as northern 
Europe is concerned, is a huge 
flow of wantin' surface wa¬ 
ters, including the Gulf. 
" Stream, across the Atlantic. 
Northern Europe-, is conse¬ 
quently mudi wanner than 


Forecast. 


corresponding latitudes in 
North America. 

The water of the North 
Atlantic has about 7 per cent 
more salt than that of the 
North Pacific, just sufficient to 
make it sink. If it were 
wanned by a few degrees, or 
made less salty by being 
diluted by melting ice, that 
could change. 

If it did. Dr Broecker writes 


in Science, the consequences 
would be devastating. “Were 
' this to happen a century from 
now. at a time when we were 
struggling to produce enough 
food to nourish the projected 
population of 12 to 18 billion, it 
could lead to widespread 
starvation." 

His warnings come as na¬ 
tions are preparing for the UN 
climate mange conference in 
Kyoto, Japan. 

Europe is pressing for a 
legally binding target of a 15 
per cent cut in global warming 
gases by 2010. John Prescott, 
the Deputy Prime Minister, 
yesterday urged Australia to 
make a firm commitment to 
cut greenhouse gas emissions. 
He was speaking in Canberra 
on the final leg of a four-nation 
tour. John Howard, the Aus¬ 
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week released a plan to hold 
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foxes. "A fox in prime condi¬ 
tion is faster and smarter than 
any foxhound,” it said. “The 
odds are in favour of the fox 
and most that are hunted 
survive. Should a fox be 
caught by hounds, its death is 
very quick and there is no risk 
of wounding." 

Seven Leicestershire hunts 
— the Quom. Cottesmore, 


Belvoir, Femie and Arher- 
stone foxhounds, the Westerby 
Bassets and the Oakley Foot 
Beagles — staged a parade on 
Melton Mowbray aerodrome 
yesterday in protest against 
the BiU. The organisers 
claimed that 4,000 people on 
foot and 800 horses and riders 
took part 

Vmi Faal, chairman of the 


Sharston Terrier and Lurcher 
Club, told the gathering: "Last 
week I met an a Welsh ex- 
miner who follows hounds. 
He said to me: ‘I never thought 
I would be arguing with a 
Labour MP. The Tories took 
away my living, now the 
Labour Parry want to take 
away my life." 

Jim Barrington, a former 


executive director of the 
League Against Cruel Sports, 
said: “A hunting ban will not 
improve the welfare of a single 
fax. I would like to see an 
independent authority set up 
to supervise and regulate the 
sport." 

Leading article, 
and Letters, page 23 


Ease your 
hell, girl’s 
father tells 
murderer 

THE parents of the murdered 
schoolgirl Kate Bushdl yester¬ 
day appealed to her killer to 
give himself up to relieve his 
"private hell". 

Jeremy Bushdl, 44, who 
found his daughters body in a 
field near their home, said: 
“There is a very, very sick 
person there who is basically 
living in hell, and his private 
hell can only be relieved by 
craning forward." 

His daughter, 14, had her 
throat cut while walking a 
neighbour's doe in Exeter. 
Suzanne Bushdl said: "She’s 
always going to be with us. We 
had 14 lovely years with her." 

Asked whether he had 
beard rumours that the lane 
the girl used was unsafe. Mr 
Bushdl said: "We had not 
heard anything specific. You 
cannot live your life in a 
cocoon. You have got to live it 
in the world where you are.” 

Police have received 1,700 
calls from the public but have 
not found the murder knife. 


CORRECTIONS 


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(November 24) did not 
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search Professor. He has 
called for a debate on the 
restoration of works of art not 
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□ Scottish Telecom has con- 
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Tdecommunications Ltd. It 
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GAY prisoners in the 1950s 
were given electric shock treat¬ 
ment and oesrrogen — a 
female sex hormone — in an 
attempt to make them 
heterosexual. 

The effort to alter homosex¬ 
uality in prison was revealed 
yesterday in Home Office 
papers released at the Public 
Record Office under the 30- 
year rule. Medical officers 
tried a number of experiments 
“to influence homosexual be¬ 
haviour" and “to abolish the 
sexual urge" 

Some prisoners asked for 
castration, and in some cases 
surgery was approved, bur the 
prison officials preferred a 
combination of therapy and 
oestrogen. Their view was 
“castration of body does not 
mean castration of mind”. 

Fony-ihree men were given 
electric shock treatment or 
aversion therapy. Pictures of a 
man were flashed on a screen 
and. if they did not switch it off 
within eight seconds, they 
received a shock. Only 36 
completed the treatment; the 
papers said 25 showed "signif¬ 
icant improvement". 

In an unsigned memoran- 


Newly released Home Office papers 
show inmates were given oestrogen 
and electric shocks in an attempt to 
convert them. Valerie Elliott reports 


dum to Rab Butler, then 
Home Secretary, officials rec¬ 
ognised, however, that the 
treatment was flawed because 
the majority of gay prisoners 
— or "inverts", as they were 
termed — refused treatment 
and others were serving sen¬ 
tences too short to cake any 
benefit from it 

Butler approved the use of 
oestrogen in 1958 among pris¬ 
oners who gave written con¬ 
sent although it was nor 
regarded as a permanent 
"cure". It had been forbidden 
previously because of the risk 
of making men sterile. 

According to the advice "the 
effect of administration of 
oestrogen to males is to dimin¬ 
ish the effect of the sexual 
urge, whether its direction is 
normal or abnormal ... but 


pt] does not effect a permanent 
cure". 

The Prison Service found 
that in half those treated the 
men “were less likely in the 
future to indulge in homosex¬ 
ual behaviour". But of the 
1,065 cases studied, SI per cent 
refused treatment and 13 per 
cent were unsuitable. 

The report states that every 
effort was made to turn the 
men's thoughts to work and “a 
healthy life". Gay Borstal boys 
were treated at Wormwood 
Scrubs while adult prisoners 
were treated at Wakefield, 
Maidstone and LeyhiU. 

The key condition for treat¬ 
ment was that an individual 
“must have a sincere wish to 
be relieved of tension resulting 
from his sexual deviation”. 
However, prison staff said 


PM freed suffragette 
who plotted to kill him 


The First World War Prime 
Minister David Lloyd 
George ordered a woman 
who had plotted to murder 
him in 1917 to be freed to 
prevent a public relations 
disaster, according to secret 
government files released 
yesterday. 

Ministers advised him 
not to release Alice 
Wheddon. who was on a 
hunger striker, but be over¬ 
ruled them, saying it was 
“undesirable" that she 
should die in prison. 
Wheddon was jailed for 
ten years after she and her 
daughter. Winnie, were 
convicted of the plot to kill 
the Prime Minister. She 
was freed from Aylesbury 
jafl later that year because 
of his direct intervention. 

According to the Home 
Office records, Wheddon 
and her two daughters 
played a part “in the suf¬ 
fragette campaign of arson 
and sabotage”. She was 
said to be annoyed that the 
First World War had inter- 



Lloyd George: he was 
target of poison plot 

fered with the campaign for 
women's suffrage. 

Wheddon bad annoyed 
the authorities by allegedly 
helping conscientious ob¬ 
jectors to avoid active mili¬ 
tary service. Initial reports 
stated that the family was 
“probably a bit crazy", but 
an undercover investigator 


— who won Wheddon’s 
friendship — claimed that 
she told him he would be a 
“saviour to his country” by 
poisoning the Prime Minis¬ 
ter. Ac papers said. She 
told him drat a couple of 
years earlier, she had 
known about a plot to kQl 
Uoyd George; but he had 
escaped fay going hi France. 

The investigator, known 
as Number Five, said die 
bad four small test tubes of 
chemicals delivered so that 
he could carry out (he plot 
The reports concluded that 
there was “ample evidence" 
that she and others were 
behind the pIoL 

After she was jailed her 
family complained about 
her treatment, which 
included her being 
stripped. She went on han¬ 
ger strike because she could 
not face ten years in prison. 

Wheddon died in 1919. 
Her son, William, covered 
her coffin with the red flag, 
according to news reports 
of the tune. 


“the desire for medical treat¬ 
ment is often expressed but 
much more rarely sincerely 
Hr. 

The report to Butler assert¬ 
ed that, while the idea of 
converting gay men was at¬ 
tractive, “with perhaps a few 
exceptions, the possibility of 
doing so is doubtful” 

Butler was also told that gay 
men in prison for the first time 
were of superior education 
and mteftigence, while homo¬ 
sexuals found regularly in 
local prisons were usually 
recidivists. 

The Prison Service admitted 
that it did not like segregating 
gay prisoners and accepted 
that some prison officers were 
strongly repelled by homosex¬ 
ual inmates and made no 
effort to conceal their feelings. 
Prison staff categorised types 
of homosexual — the male 
prostitute, the corrupter of 
youth, the obviously effemi¬ 
nate, the obnoxious and the 
homosexual “who tries to pa¬ 
rade a fancied intellectual 
superiority to the common 
hero". 

The “passive homo" was 
regarded as a great nuisance 
while the male prostitute was 
"no trouble". “It is the temper¬ 
amentally female type who is 
the canker." the paper stated. 
Some prisons enlisted chap¬ 
lains to influence behaviour of. 
the gays but the report com¬ 
plained thar many were prone 
to “facile religiosity”. 

The papers formed part of 
the debate in government 
about reforms, proposed by 
John Wolfenden [later Lord 
Wolfenden) in a Royal Com¬ 
mission report in 1957, to 
legalise sex between consent¬ 
ing men aged over 21. How¬ 
ever. it was not until 1967. 
when Roy Jenkins was Home 
Secretary, that the Sexual 
Offences Act was passed. 

Rab Butler was dearly un¬ 
comfortable with the proposed 
reforms. He wrote to Cabinet 
colleagues in 1957 that the 
Wolfenden report “seems to 
avoid the moral issues”. 

In 1966, as the legislation 
was being prepared, Harold 
Wilson, then Prime Minister, 
was urged by the National 
Union of Seamen to maintain 
a ban on gay sex at sea. Bill 
Hogarth, the union's general 
secretary, said he feared par¬ 
ents would not allow their 
sons to go to sea. "The pres¬ 
ence of homosexuals can give 
rise to serious conflicts and 
jealousies” 

Wilson promised to try to 
find a way around the law for 
the seamen. 



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Lord Alfred Douglas, who wanted to raise money by selling a manuscript 


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THE Home Office refused to 
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Alfred Douglas, the former 
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been sentenced to six months* 
imprisonment in 1921 for a 
libd against Winston Chur- 
rJnff suggesting that he had 
been corrupted by a Jewish 
financier. He was allowed to 
continue to write his poetry in 
prison but, od release, he was 
refused his notebook. 

Douglas hoped to raise . 
money by selling the manu-Qr 
script to an American collec¬ 
tor. The Home Office view 
was that be bad partly repeal¬ 
ed the libd in die sonnet 
which begins “The leprous 
spawn of scattered Israel 
spread Its contagion in your 
EngUsh blood...” 

A powerful group of MPs 
lobbied the Government to 
release the notebook and 
make a special case for such 
an eminent poet But in 1942, 

Sir Alexander Maxwell then 
Home Secretary, firmly re¬ 
jected the pleadings for 
Douglas, then 72. from Har¬ 
old Nioolson, Alan Lennox- 
Boyd, Henry “Chips" 

Chan wo n. 

Osbcrt Peake, a junior 
Home Office Minister, ad¬ 
vised Sir Alexander. “If 
Douglas is now in penury his 
friends should do something 
for him. ” Peake was alsa& 
concerned that release of the** 
notebook would revive sto¬ 
ries of WUde and Douglas. 

The Home Secretary 
agreed and made dear that 
he would also be criticised 
for favouring “people of emi¬ 
nence”. The MPs were 
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By John O’Leary, education editor 


Doctor says diet obsession gives girls anorexia, and a 
bit of energy would do them good, writes John O’Leaiy 


AN OBSESSION with heal-' 
thy eating, exercise and vege¬ 
tarianism is fueling me 
growth of anoreoa and bulim¬ 
ia among teenage girls, the 
director of a specialist dink 
told headmistresses yesterday. 

Dee Dawson, medical direc¬ 
tor or the Rhodes Farm Clinic 
in North London, which treats 
children with eating disor¬ 
ders, said that chips, chocolate 
and crisps were all sources of 
energy which parents and . 
schools should welcome. Left 
to choose their own food, 
children would arrive at a 
naturally healthy diet •. • 

Dr Dawson said girls at 
private schools were more 
likely to suffer from eating 
disorders. She told the. head¬ 
mistresses of independent 

girls’schools that at least 1 to 2 
per cent of their pupils were 
likely to have anorexia- 
nervosa. As many as 5 per cent 
of sixth formers could be 
bulimic. Anorexics tended: so 
be obsessive, compulsive per¬ 
fectionists, who typically had 
small, neat handwriting and 
would rip up work untD they 
were satisfied, she said. 

In her speech to the Girl’s 
Schools Association in Bristol, 
Dr Dawson said that a higher 
percentage of children with 
eating disorders was found In 
public schools:'. This was 
because perfectionist; high- 
achieving children of high-. 
flying, equally perfectionist 
parents were often educated 
privately. 

“Having said that, anorexia 
nervosa is moving rapidly 


down through the social class¬ 
es and is cemintynot confined 
to prestigious schools’*, she 
said. She blamed tow-fet diets, 
modem, exercise regimes and 
the trend towards vegetarian¬ 
ism for many eating disorders. 

She said, that thin models 
had siich an impact that half, 
of afl. six-year-olds were wor¬ 
ried about their weight. Only 
about 4 per bent of sdtookfaH- 
dren were truly overweight. 
Giris had to be told that it was 
natural to gain weight around 
puberty^ and any weight loss 
should be recc®msed as a 
' cause for concern. 

... The promotion of low&t 
diets was dangerous to poten¬ 
tially anorexic children. 
“Children do not. need :to 
. restrict their fat intake — they 
: should drink JizQ-cream milk, 
they can happily eat butter, 
there is not one. shred of 
evidence to suggest that what 
we eat as children has any 
influence on the later inci¬ 
dence of coronary heart dis¬ 
ease. Chocolate; c he ese, oisps 
and chips are wonderful ener¬ 
gy-giving foods which child¬ 
ren need." 

She believed it no coinci¬ 
dence that 80 per cent of her 
patirats were vegetarian. 
“Children should not depend 
on beans and nuts for their 
protein. They need to eat 
meat-" Exercise videos were 
also damaging: “I would like 
to shoot Rosemary Conley... 
no amount of waving your 
legs in die air will reduce the 
amount of fat on your thighs 
other than its effect in burning 


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wwith Dee Dawson in her 
■ contention that dietaiy fat in 
childhood has no influence on 
later health. • . 

The evidence from post¬ 
mortem -examinations on 
/young. American servicemen 
.'killed in the Korean War 
showed that, by the early 
1950s, the postwar diet, which 
is unduly reliant upon canve- 
> nuance foods with a high fat. 
content, had increased .the, 
amount of atheroma- in the 
-coronary arteries and aorta. 
This evidence of cardiovascu- ’ 
Jar disease showed to a greater 
extent than before. 1- 
There is an implied sugges¬ 
tion in Dr Dawson’s remarks 
that keeping the calorieintake 
derived from, tat low might 
encourage the children to take 
less than 10 per cent- of the" 
daily energy-requirement in . 
fat Ten per cent is the absolute 
minimum which is-essential 


for the absorption of. fat- 
soluble vitamins, heal dry cell 
production and for lubrication 
to enhance food flavour and to 
make It easy to swallow. 

Anything which gives over¬ 
emphasis to the body beauti¬ 
ful, including excessive 
exercise, can be destructive. 
Adults who are obsessed 
about their children's appear¬ 
ance and performance, both 
physical and mental are likely 
also id be interfering, over- 
intrusive and incapable of 
allowing their children to de¬ 
velop their independence. 

Excessive anxiety about fat 
is likely to be symptomatic of 
other, greater, problems in 
parenthood which Will not be 
eased by encouraging a diet 
rich in cheese, chips and 
double cream. 

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Dr Dawson said parents 
should set an example by 
avoiding constant talk of diet 
and exercise. Schools could 
spot potential problems early 
by weighing children regular¬ 
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weight loss. 

Dr Dawson said she feared 
that the Government would 
compound the problem by 
issuing healthy eating guide¬ 
lines. She claimed that a 
leaked policy document from 
the Department of Health 
considered banning school 
tuck shops, chips in' school 
canteens and restricting the 
sale of chocolate. She said: 
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Dr Dawson speaking yesterday. She said schools should weigh pupils regularly 


WHEN Dec Dawson gave 
up her job as a hospital 
doctor to have her fifth child, 
she decided to take two or 
three anorexic children into 
her home. Within months, 
the demand for treatment 
was such that she had to 
extend her boose and eventu¬ 
ally move her famQy out. 

Today, her Rhodes Farm 
clinic, in North London, has 
32 beds and is 1 rearing 
anorexic children from all 
over Britain and further 
afield. Dr Dawson is also 
acting as a consultant to 
several schools and spread¬ 
ing her message of the dam¬ 
age done by food fads. 

She gained a degree in 
biochemistry in the 1970s and 
spent three years researching 
heart disease before working 
in Madagascar as a volun¬ 
teer. She took an MBA at the 
London Business School and 
three years later started a 
fashion company specialising 
in larger sizes. 

By 1982, she had sold the 
business to the Burton Group 


and took a degree in medi¬ 
cine qualifying in 1989. She 
practised as a part-time GP 
when she first began special¬ 
ising in the treatment of 
eating disorders, but the 
growth of her dink soon 
made this impractical. In 
recent years, she has become 
one of the most outspoken 
critics of the vogue for exer¬ 
cise and supposedly healthy 
eating. 

She told headmistresses 
yesterday how her six-year- 
old daughter once brought a 
note home from her prep 
school asking parents not to 
in dude chocolate biscuits or 
crisps in Innchboxes because 
they were “envy-making 
foods”. 

Another note prescribed 
early bedtimes because child¬ 
ren were tired in the after¬ 
noon. She said:“Could it be. I 
thought, that they were tired 
because they were eating 
celery sticks and carrot in¬ 
stead of a Mars bar. which 
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By Michael Evans 

DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT 

AN APPEAL by the Princess 
Royal for the Royal Yacht 
Britannia to be scuttled in¬ 
stead of preserved as a tourist 
attraction could embarrass the 
Government. Ministers have 
already concluded that a deci¬ 
sion to scrap the yacht would 
cause public outrage. 

The Princess made it clear 
that she would prefer Britan¬ 
nia to be scrapped because she 
fears the yacht would not be 
maintained properly in private 
hands. Her comments were 
made while she was attending 
the last official rpyal engage¬ 
ment on Britannia before she 
is decommissioned on Decem¬ 
ber II. She said: “Do you 
realise that the brasses are 
cleaned every day — not every 
month or every week, but every 
day? Nobody could do thar. I 
think she should be scuttled." 

The Princess, who spent her 



HMY Britan nia 

first honeymoon on Britannia, 
was on die yacht, in Ports¬ 
mouth, in her capacity as 
president of the Royal Naval 
Museum Trust, which held a 
reception for 200 supporters 
and sponsors on Wednesday 
night. She said she hated to 
think of Britannia being left to 
deteriorate. The most dignified 
end for the 43-year-old yacht 
would be for her to be sunk. 

Government sources made it 
dear yesterday that the option 
to scrap Britannia had effect¬ 
ively been ruled out. One 
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There are seven bids in for 
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shnuld be the Pool of London 
Canary Wharf. Greenwich, the 
Clyde, Edinburgh or the 
Manchester Ship CanaL Min¬ 
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are expected to make a decision 
next week. 

Yesterday Leo Madden, 
leader of ftjrtsmouth City 
Coundl, presented John Reid, 
the Armed Forces Minister, 
with a petition signed by more 
than 10.700 people calling for 
Britannia to be retained in 
Portsmouth. 




The Queen starting a life-sized action model at Radley College yesterday 


Massage revitalises 
Queen’s handshake 


THE Queen is taking seri¬ 
ously . her new image of 
gettingdoser to her people, 
bat rarely has contact gone 
to the length of peeling off 
her.gloves and allowing a 
hand to be massaged with 
exotic oils. The experience 
appeared to give welcome 
relief from the constant 
round of flesh-pressing. 

During a . visit to 
Berinsfidd, a large and 
isolated^ village in south 
Oxfordshire, she toured a 
community .education 
centre. There she came 
across the perfumed and 
candlelit aromatherapy 
room. Six pairs of women 
were stroking each other’s 
hands under the eye of their 
teacher, Claire Brown. 

TheQueen sniffed ajar of 


By Alan Hamilton 

ofl. Mrs Brown asked if she 
would like a massage. The 
Queen accepted with little 
hesitation. Which hand 
would she prefer? She gazed 
at her extremities for a 
moment and placed the 
right one on a cushion in 
her lap. That’s the hard 
one," die declared. 

Mrs Brown bad prepared 
a heady oik rose for its 
aroma, mandarin to nplift 
body and spirit and frank¬ 
incense to' calm, anxiety. T 
suppose your jh$ad gets very 
tiied with all that hand¬ 
shaking," Mrs Brown ven¬ 
tured, gently teasing the 
royal fingers. The Queen 
readily agreed. 

Clearly, relaxed, she put 
her gloves bade on and 
resumed her round of 


handshaking with renewed 
vigour. Most of Berins- 
fidd's 4.000 population 
were on the streets to greet 
the Queen, who had asked 
to see a less well-off part of 
the county. The village has 
more unemployment crime 
and single mothers than 
usual for the relatively afflu¬ 
ent Oxfordshire. 

She ended the tour taking 
tea with pensioners in the 
church hall where she un¬ 
dertook her 65tfa and final 
handshake of die day with 
untiled* vigour. The manda¬ 
rin ami frankincense had 
dearly done their work. 

□ The Queen’s . Christmas 
broadcast will be put on 
the Buckingham Palace 
Internet Web site: 
wtvwjroyaLgov.uk 


news in brief 


Ugandan 
Asians say 
thankyou 
at Abbey 

Hundreds of Ugandan Asians 
who fled to Britain to escape 
Idi Amin’s regime gathered at 
Westminster Abbey yesterday 
for a service to commemorate 
the 25th anniversary of thar 
arrival and to thank Britain v 
for welcoming them. Nearly 
30,000 refugees came to Brit¬ 
ain, when Amin orde red U gan¬ 
da’s entire Asian community > 
to leave the country within 90 
days in August 1972- 

Photograph, page 26 

Lawyer for foetus 

A lawyer has been appointed, 
to defend the right to life of the . 
unborn baby of a 13 -year-old^ 
alleged rape victim in Ireland. 

James O’Reilly. SC. was ap ¬ 
pointed by the Attorney-Gen-; 
era!. The girl wants 
terminate the pregnancy. 

Head suspended ■ $ 

The married head of one of 
Britain’s largest special needs ; 
schools, the Percy Hedley^ 
School, in North Tyneside, has 
been suspended after an al¬ 
leged affair with his deputy.,. 

Mike Verting and the deputy 
had already resigned. 

CSA blunder 

The Child Support Agency 
mistakenly sent a mainte¬ 
nance demand for £20.000 to a 
married man with three child¬ 
ren. David Allen, 33, of 
Mostori. Manchester, was told 
he owed money for two child¬ 
ren with another woman. 

Winston at work 

A portrait of Sir Winston 
Churchill working on papers 
during the Second World War, 
and wearing the blue “siren a 
suit" he designed for air raids, w 
fetched £111300 at Christie’s in 
London. One of Churchill’s 
landscapes made £150,000. 

Hardlines 

Two beys, aged 10 and 12. 
were ordered by a' policeman 
to do 1,000 lines saying T shall 
not steal again. I am very 
sorry" after stealing a camera, 
chocolates and a purse from 
.Jeanette ..Hannington, 31, of 
Colchester. Essex. 

Case dropped r / ! 

A case against PC Alan Bone, 

43, a driving instructor with 
Surrey Police accused of driv- 
ing at 124raph, was dropped 
after the prosecutor recog- (t 
nised him and arresting offi- .TJ 
cers did not turn up for the % 
trial by Aldershot magistrates. & 


Highlanders aim Safety move after 
to buy estate Harding crash 


By Shirley English 

THE 60 residents of Knoy- 
dart, a remote peninsula on 
the West Coast of Scotland, 
yesterday began a bid to buy 
the estate from its absentee 
private laird, announcing an 
appeal for £1 million. 

The Knoydart Foundation, 
whose members include 
Highland Council and the 
[oral community, is taking up 
the torch lit in 1948 by seven 
returning servicemen. Angry 
at finding the homeland they 
had fought for neglected by 
the then owner, the 2nd Lord 
Brocket, who was a Nazi 
sympathiser, the men each 
staked claims to 65-acre crofts. 
Despite public support they 
were eventually defeated. 

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By Arthur Leathley, transport correspondent T 


HELICOPTER pilots will 
have to observe stricter regula¬ 
tions when flying in poor 
conditions as a result of die 
crash in which Matthew Har¬ 
ding, die vice-chairman of 
Chelsea Football Club, and 
four other people died. 

The crash was caused by 
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concluded that Michael Goss, 
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The French Aerospatiale AS 
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weather conditions on the way 
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Bolton on October 22 last year. 


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12 POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 


THE TIMES FRIDAY NQVBMBER28lfflf 


Welsh assembly 
may spend years 
in makeshift home 


THE new Welsh assembly 
may have to find a temporary 
home after die collapse of 
negotiations over the use of 
Cardiff City HalJ. the Welsh 
Secretary said yesterday. 

Ron Davies suggested that 
members and staff could find 
themselves without a perma¬ 
nent home for three or four 
years after the assembly is set 
up in May 1999. 

The Government offered 
Cardiff City Council a maxi¬ 
mum of £3.5 million to lease 
City Hall, which was the 
Welsh Secretary's first choice 
of location for die assembly. 
The council's ruling Labour 
group rejected the offer unani¬ 
mously, despite the Govern¬ 
ment's protests that it would 
have to spend a further £30 
million on renovating and 
refurbishing the building. 

Although Mr Davies regret¬ 
ted that the City Hall would 
not house the Welsh assembly, 
he said: “It was the preferred 
option, but not (he only 
option." 

The alternatives will be set 
out in a consultation docu¬ 
ment to be published in the 
next ren days. In the short 
term, the)' include the old Mid 
Glamorgan county council 
hall in Cardiff and the Coal 
Exchange in Cardiff Bay. 
which was identified as a 
pCBsible assembly headquar- 


Polly Newton on 
the failure to 


secure a deal 
for the use of 
Cardiff City Hall 


tens in rhe run-up to the 1979 
referendum on Welsh devolu¬ 
tion. Both would have to be 
modified to accommodate the 
assembly while a long-term 
home was found — perhaps a 
new building in Cardiff. 

Mr Davies said that he still 
favoured Cardiff because it 
was the Welsh capital, but 
there were other possibilities. 
Wherever the assembly is 
sited, it could be connected by 
video Jinks with “satellite" 
offices in other cities and 
towns. 

The Government of Wales 
Bill, which was published 
yesterday, sets aside £17 mil¬ 
lion for the establishment of 
the assembly. Mr Davies said 
he was confident chat ir would 
be enough. 

He said that the Bill was a 
milestone for Wales. “In only 
IS months, and for the first 
time ever, there will be an all- 
Wales elected government" 


Decisions affecting Wales 
had for too long been taken 
behind closed doors. “The new 
national assembly will be 
modem, open and account¬ 
able." He said that neither 
Westminster nor local govern¬ 
ment would provide the mod¬ 
el. The assembly would make 
a fresh start based on the best 
practices from around the 
world. 

The leader of the assembly 
will be called the First Secre¬ 
tary. He or she will form an 
executive committee, or Cabi¬ 
net, whose members — the 
leaders of various committees 
— will be known as Secretar-. 
ies. Their salaries will be set 
by the Senior Salaries Review 
Body, which recommends pay 
rises for MPs and ministers at 
Westminster. 

Mr Davies predicted that 
the assembly would sit for two 
or three days a week, and said 
that he expected all members 
to be paid for doing full-time 
jobs. Details of its daily opera¬ 
tions. however, are be deter¬ 
mined by a commission, 
subject to die agreement of 
national assembly members. 

Over the next IS months, the 
Government will try to per¬ 
suade doubters that die as¬ 
sembly will benefit Wales. In 
the referendum in September, 
devolution was backed by a 
majority of just 6.721, or 0.6 



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per cent Peter Hain, the 
junior Welsh Office Minister, 
will co-ordinate a campaign to 
win over those who voted 
against 

He said yesterday: “I predict 
that in ten years’ time, you will 
not be able to identify anybody 
who would admit to voting 
■no’ in the referendum. 


because it will become such a 
hugely popular assonbly.” 

The Government for Wales 
Bill is expected to have its 
second reading in die Com¬ 
mons in the week beginning 
December 8. Mr Davies 
risked the wrath of the Oppo¬ 
sition by saying thar ir was 
unlikely to be debated in full 


on. the floor of the House, 
despite the convention that all 
MPs are given the chance to 
scrutinise in detail any legisla¬ 
tion with constitutional 
implications. 

Mr Davies said it was “very 
important" that the key de¬ 
bates were taken on the floor 
of the House, but said that 


would depend on the Conser¬ 
vative Party. "If they are 
prepared to be co-operative 
wnh us I will ensure that the 
key issues are taken on the 
floor of the House,” he said, 
but added: “There is a very 
strong case for much of the 
detail of the Bill to be taken in 
committee upstairs.'* 


COMPANIES discharg¬ 
ing poisonous wastes face 

higher charges under 
govenunenfrbadted pro¬ 
posals announced yester¬ 
day to improve river 
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Michael Mcachcr. the 
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sud the health of the 
cation’s rims bad im¬ 
proved markedly between 

1990 and 1996. Bid there 
were stiff stretches in Eng¬ 
land and Wales where 
poflotioa made the water 
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THE Blair Government's 
“squeaky-clean" image has 
been unaffected by the row 
over the Benue Ecclestone 
. affair.-The latest MORI poll 
'^op'Tbe'Times shows that 
■ more ; thaiv. half the public 
; believes ifrat if h as upheld 
in public life 
suibefite'etoion. 

The poll, undertaken last 
weekend,, included a number 
ofquestions about the public's 
altitude towards the Govern¬ 
ment Hopes are still high; 
and, despite allegations about 
Labour "sleaze”, the public 
thinks that the Government 
has upheld high standards in 
public life by almost a two-to- 
one margin. 

Moreover. 58 per cent flunk 
that the Labour Government 
is doing about the same as 
they expected, while 20 per 
cent believe it is doing better 
than expected and 16 per cent 
worse. The middle classes are 
slightly more positive than the 
working classes. 

There is a broadly even split 
over whether the Government 
has kept its promise!. 45 per 
cent believing it has and 41 per 
cent has not 

Reveal ingjy, the highest 
. proportion, 24 per cent, saying 
that the Government has done 
better than expected come 
from Scotland, and the lowest, 
at 15 per cent, from Wales. 
Similarly, a much higher pro¬ 
portion in Scotland than 
Wales (55 to 48 per cent) 
believe that the Government 
has kept its promises. This 
undoubtedly reflects the con¬ 
trasting attitudes on 
devolution. 

Three quarters say their 
standard of living has stayed 
about the same since May, 
with just 7 per cent saying it 
has improved and 17 per cent 
got worse. Complaints about a 
decline in living standards are 
well above average, at 23 per 
cent. - among those buying 
their homes on mongages 
who have faced a series of 
interest rate increases since 
May. This is also reflected in 
the 22 per cent of 35 to 54-year- 
olds reporting worse living 
standards. By contrast, the 
figure is just II per cent among 
those who own their homes 
outright. Those aged between 
35 and 54 and and those 
buying homes on a mortgage 
are also less inclined to think 
that the Government has kept 
its promises. 

Nonetheless, 56 per cent 
agree that in the long term, 
this Government's policies' 
will improve the state of 
Britain's economy, with 27 per 
cent disagreeing- This is 
roughly the same balance as 
after Gordon Brown’s first 
Budget in July. 

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proportion believing that tbe 
general economic condition of 
the country will improve rath¬ 
er than get worse aver the next 
12 months, is stiff positive, at 
plus six points, roughly the 
same as at the end of October. 

The unemployed are. not 
surprisingly, more likely than 
others to say their standard of 
living has got worse and that 
the Government has not kept 
its promises since the election. 
However, they remain opti¬ 
mistic about the future since 


an above average two thirds of 
them believe that, in the long 
term, this Government's poli¬ 
cies will improve the state c& 
Britton’s economy. ▼ 

- Three fifths of the public, 
inducting two fifths of Tory 
supporters, believe the Gov¬ 
ernment has .provided a 
strong voice in Europe, with 
tost 25 per cent disagreeing. 

□ MORI interviewed a repre¬ 
sentative quota sample of 
1J879 adults at 170 sampling 
points across Britain front 
November 21 to 24. 


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role ‘must 
betaken 
off Short’ 

By Nichoias Watt, political correspondent 


CLARE_ SHORT should be 
stripped of her responsibility 
for the island of Montserrat 
after the Govemmenrs “clum¬ 
sy" response to the volcano 
crisis, a Commons report con¬ 
cluded yesterday. 

The report by the Interna¬ 
tional Development Commit- 
Tee. said that the Fbreign 
Office should clear up die 
“mismanagement _and confu¬ 
sion'’ in the running of the 
island, a dependent territory, 
by taking control of its multi¬ 
million-pound budget. 

One source on the commit¬ 
tee said: “This report wfll set 
the dovecotes of Whitehall 
fluttering. They’re going to 
resist this like hdl. But there's 
nothing like an emergency to 
concentrate minds." 

Ms Short, the International 
Development Secretary, infu¬ 
riated the islands leaders at 



Short: infuriated 
the island’s leaders 

the height of die vdcann crisis 
in August when she said that 
their financial demands were 
so unreasonable “they wfl] be 
wanting golden elephants 
nexT. The report criticised Ms 
Short for her remarksbut said 
it welcomed her re tr a ctio n 
when she appeared before the 
committee last month. 

The cross-party committee 
did not blame Ms Sharffarthq: 
“failures and mistakes" ih'the 
Government's response to the 
volcano, which erupted in 
June, killing 19 people. Instead 
it said that there were “too 
many derision-makers* in the 
process, including Ms Short's 
department, which is respon¬ 
sible for the distribution of aid, 
the Foreign Office, which has 
overall responsibility for the 
island, and the Gcnremment 
and Governor of Montserrat 

Bowen Wells, the Tory 
chairman of the committee. 


said: “The committee was very 
shaken by die conditions in 
which the people of Montser¬ 
rat were forced to live. We 
found that there are a whole 
variety of authorities responsi¬ 
ble far this condition. The 
responsibility in British terms 
lies with the Foreign Office. 
But the International Develop¬ 
ment Department cannot es- 
- cape the blame for sane of the 
chaotic dedsion-making pro¬ 
cesses on Montserrat nor can 
die elected Government of 
Montserrat or the Governor. 
In fori: the managerial rela¬ 
tionships in Whitehall were 
very clumsy indeed.” . 

Although the committee 
stopped short of blaming Ms 
Short it concluded that her 
department should no longer 
have any role in Montserrat. 
Mr Wells said that aid should 
come from the Treasury’s 
contingency reserve fond, 
while the Foreign Office 
should take charge of the 
island. He insisted that the 
report’s recommendations 
was not a reflection oh the 
work of Ms Short's depart- - 
merit but simply a recognition 
that there should be “clearly 
delineated responsibilities”. 

He added: ‘This is a radical 
report one born of the tragedy 
that the volcano is visiting on 
Montserrat It illustrates the 
total inadeqaucy of the present 
British arrangements for die 
administration of the depen¬ 
dent territories." 

Mr Wells made dear that 
Ms Short was not -the only 
minister who should be criti¬ 
cised. He attacked Baroness 
Symons of Vemham Dean, 
the Foreign Office Minister, 
for foiling to keep her promise 
to the committee to sort out the 
problems Montsexratians ex¬ 
perienced at immigration con¬ 
trols on arrival in Britain. 

His criticisms, which were - 
also directed at die previous 
Government, were shared by 
Labour members of the com¬ 
mittee. Ann.Clwyd,.MP for 
Cynon Valley, said: “It makes 
me quite ashamed. These are 
citizens, of a British Dependent 
Territory who should be given 
die best treatment" 

Ms Short welcomed die 
report saying: “Clearly, 
things needed to improve. The 
system we inherited from the 
Overseas Development Ad¬ 
ministration has now been 
streamlined -The report points 
a'dear way forward." 


Whitehall to beat 
‘millennium bomb’ 

By James Landale, political reporter 


GOVERNMENT depart-., 
ments are Iflcdy to beat’the : 
“millennium timebomb" that 
threatens to rause .computer 
chaos at the torn of the 
century, ft was announced 
yesterday.. , 

David Clark, the Public 
Services Minister, said that 
Whitehall departments and 
agencies were on bourse with 
a scheme to make all their 
computer equipment “millen¬ 
nium compliant". But it does 
not cover hospitals, health 
trusts, local authorities or 
operational militaiy equip-, 
meat, for which there are 
separate arrangements. 

Most computers store year 
dates in a two-digit number. 
Unless they are adapted, 
man y computers will reach 

2000. believe that time has 
travelled back a century to 


-1900,and shutdown in confu¬ 
sion. The danger' extends be¬ 
yond-the land of computer 
used in offices. Any equip¬ 
ment ' with time-sensitive 
chips will be affected, such as 
timdock safes, automated 
hospital drips, refrigerators 
and telephone systems. 

Mr Clark told MPS in a 
statement that £370 million 
was being spent on the White¬ 
hall scheme. Each depart¬ 
ment would have to present 
Parliament with quarterly 
progress reports, and random 
tests would be carried out on 
computers thought to be arm- 
pliant “The timetable is tight 
and there is little margin for 
error," he said. . 

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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 13 

On-the-record move is 
in the right direction 


Montserrat: an eruption of the island’s volcano in Jtme killed 19 people 


THE Blairisation of Whitehall 
took a further important step 
forward yesterday. The prosai¬ 
cally entitled Report of the 
Working Group on the Gov¬ 
ernment Information Service 
is as revealing a document 
about how the Blair adminis¬ 
tration works as has so far 
appeared — confirming the 
key rales of Peter Mandelson 
and Alastair Campbell. Stu¬ 
dents of the “hidden wiring" 
will learn of the daily meetings 
chaired by the former bringing 
together “key players". 

It is easy to get over-excited 
about charges of politicisation 
and the role of Labour spin- 
doctors. The true story is less 
melodramatic and more com¬ 
plicated. Yesterday's report 
from a mixed Civil Service- 
political group clears the air 
and is largely welcome. 

Fust, the proposal to con¬ 
duct the twice-daily briefings 
by the Prime Minister’s Chief 
Press Secretary on the assump¬ 
tion that they are on-the-record 
is sensible and long overdue. 
There has been a gradual shift 
to greater openness and more 
direct attribution over the past 
decade as part of a greater 
transparency in government 
and a more open style among a 
new generation of political 
journalists. 

As Mr Mandelson argued in 
his speedi to the Parliamenta¬ 
ry Press Gallery on Wednes¬ 
day, it will be clearer who is 
speaking an behalf of whom. 
“Of course, there will not be an 
end to anonymous sources, but 


ON POLITICS 

at least authorised ones will 
dearly be su.” The usual 
suspects will still be chatting 
away, if no longer perhaps 
from ihe Red Lion. These 

informal, unattribu table con¬ 
tacts are inherent in journal¬ 
ists’ relations with politicians. 
But die change, while having a 
limited practical impact, is a 
gain for honesty and darity. 

Secondly, the proposals to 
streamline the Government 
Information Service are large¬ 
ly justified. During the sum¬ 
mer, misunderstandings, and 
worse, developed between new 
ministers and their advisers 
and the GIS, leading to a wave 
of early retirements and, in 
some cases, forced departures 
of heads of information. Faults 
existed on both sides: ministers 
were right ro feel that the GIS 
needed a shake-up but some 
were criticising press officers 
for failing to perform essential¬ 
ly political roles. A new concor¬ 
dat between the two was 
needed, as well as an updating 
of information practices. Yes¬ 
terday’s proposals are intend¬ 
ed to bring Whitehall press 
officers in the world of 24-hour 
media and instant response 
with a new media monitoring 
unit following the successful 
Labour operation. It is also 
sensible to develop closer rela¬ 
tions between polity civil ser¬ 
vants and press offices. Guide¬ 


lines have been set out on what 
it is appropriate for press 
officers to da but I am still not 
sure that all ministers folly 
realise the distinction between 
the interests of the Govern¬ 
ment and of the Labour Party. 
The job of dvil servants is to 
make the Government success¬ 
ful, not to re-elect Labour. 

Thirdly, the most striking 
feature of the report is the 
proposed closer co-ordination 
of information at the centre — 
for a new electronic informa¬ 
tion system and Strategic 
Communications Unit com¬ 
bining civil servants and spe¬ 
cial advisers to coordinate, 
rather than to “spin”. Its job 
will be to implement, not to 
make policy. This unit would 
be six strong but that is quite 
an addition to a current iota] of 
about 30 civil servants and 
advisers in No 10. 

The official emphasis is on 
co-ordination, but the consis¬ 
tent theme is centralisation, a 
desire to strengthen the ability 
of the Prime Minister’s Office, 
not just to present a coherent 
message but also to influence 
the development of policy 
throughout Whitehall. Much 
of this is desirable. Political 
scientists have for long debat¬ 
ed the “hole" at the centre of 
British government. But yes¬ 
terday’s changes will need 
watching as pan of a more 
genera] attempt to strengthen 
the levers of power in 
Downing Street 

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A LEADING member of 
Binyarain Netanyahu’s ruling 
Likud party yesterday backed 
the creation of a limited Pales¬ 
tinian state in a new challenge 
to the policy of the embattled 
right-wing Israeli Prime 
Minister. 

The move, by Meir Sheetrit 
Likud’s chief whip, came as 
Mr Netanyahu fared criticism 
from all sides over his han¬ 
dling of the faltering peace 
process and was threatened 
with a right-wing Knesset 
revolt to topple his coalition. 

Yesterday, crude posters de¬ 
picting him in an Arab 
keffiyeh headdress under the 
slogan “The Liar" were dis¬ 
tributed in Jerusalem by ex¬ 
treme right-wing Jews furious 
that he plans to hand Hark 
more West Bank land to 
Palestinians. 

Underlining the severity of 
his dilemma, the Yediot 
Aharonot dally reported Him 
as saying: “The Americans are 
treating me like Saddam Hus¬ 
sein," because of repeated 
snubs by President Qmtaru 


From Christopher Walker in Jerusalem 


who blames him for being too 
uncompromising with the 
Arabs. 

Mr Sheetrit. fa remarks mat 
led to calls for his resignation, 
said: "I think that it is possible 
to achieve peace with the 
Palestinians. I am not afraid 
of them and I am not afraid of 
a Palestinian stare. The most 
important thing is .to initiate 


came only days after Yassir 
Arafat, the Palestinian leader, 
announced that in May 1999, 
at the end of the period laid 
down for negotiations under 
the Oslo peace accord, he will 
unilaterally declare a state 
and call for world recognition. 
“If we initiate an arrange¬ 
ment, a final arrangement, we 
can arrive at the best arrange- 


61 think that it is possible to achieve 
peace with the Palestinians. I am not 
afraid of a Palestinian state ? 


the establishment of a Pales¬ 
tinian stare while we are in 
power." 

r.He added: “If_ we are the 
cores to initiate a Palestinian 
state, we can do it under.the 
best possible conditions for 
Israel. If we do nothing, at the 
end of the process, a Palestin¬ 
ian state will be created under 
the worst possible conditions." 
. His surprise conversion 



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defend war policy 
at Nazi gold debate 

By MichaelBinyon and Peter Capjeixa 


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SWITZERLAND has pre¬ 
pared a robust defence or its 
wartime record to forestall 
any attempt to pillory its 
dealings with Nazi Germany 
at next week’s conference in 
London on Nazi gold. - 

Thomas Borer, a diplomat 
heading the (ask force chi 
S wiss banking and financial 
affairs: during the war,- will ■' 
tell delegates from the '42 
countries attending, the Lan¬ 
caster . House meeting _ that - 
Switzerland had to buy'gold 
from Germany because in 
1941 the allies had frozen the 
bulk of die Swiss National 
Bank’s reserves deposited in . 
America for security before 
the war. 

He argues that only gold., 
obtained from Germany was 
freely tradeable; and was 
needed for vital transactions. 
All imports from Romania, 

A Hungary, POrtuaiandTuricey 
y had to be paid for in gold. 

Mr Borer refutes tibe com¬ 
mon view that the Swiss 
National Bank traded mainly 
with Germany. It bought 
SwFrl.2 billion of German 
gold, but far more from the 
allies, and during the war 
dealt with the central banks of 
16 countries. 

His delegation will be one 
of about 30 countries present¬ 
ing historical papers -at the 


two-day conference. British, 
officials have given a warning 
that if delegates start trading 
. accusations, the attempt to 
unearth new archives could 
be frustrated. 

Britain. France and Ameri¬ 
ca, which still hold 55 tonnes 
of gold not yet-distributed by 
the Tripartite Gold Commis¬ 
sion. want the ten claimant 
countries to endorse (heir 
proposal to turn it over to a 
fund for victims of the Nazis. 

In Switzerland, relatives of 
Holocaust survivors have aK 
' leged ■ that Britain applied 
laws on confiscated enemy 
. property in a selective man¬ 
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• Eastern European nobility 
were -returned while dalms 
from survivors were rejected. 

: The families of Peter 
Csango, John Leopold and 
Reuven Tal have tried, for 
decades to recover money 
that was left with banks in 
London by their Hungarian 
■and Romanian Jewish rela¬ 
tives beforethe war. 

Mr Leopold said that, in 
contrast, documents in the 
Public Record Office: show 
(hat Britain found ways to 
return .the assets of some of 
Eastern Europe's richest and 
influential families, for exam¬ 
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mem for the state of Israel," 
said Mr Sheetrit, 39, who 
argued dial a left-wing gov¬ 
ernment would rede more 
land. Under his proposal,. 
Jerusalem Would r emain 
under Israeli sovereignty, the 
Jordan River would remain 
farad's border and Israd 
would annex most of the 144 
Jewish settlements. 

The “Liar" posters were 


state 


ominously reminiscent of the 
right-wing hate campaign that 
preceded the assassination of 
Yitzhak Rabin, the Labour 
Prime Minister, in November 
1996. Mr Rabin was slut by a 
right-wing Jew who claimed 
religious justification for mur¬ 
dering him to prevent the 
West Bank being handed to 
the Palestinians under terms 
of the 1993 peace deal signed 
in Washington. 

Yesterday's posters were 
signed in the name of a far- 
right movement known in 
Hebrew as Hazii Haraayon, 
the “Idea Front". Last night 
farad radio reported that 
police had arrested Noam 
Ffederman. a prominent right- 
wing Jewish activist, and an 
unnamed minor on suspicion 
of putting up the posters. 

Questioned in a CNN tele¬ 
vision interview abouT Mr 
Clinton's apparent refusal to 
meet him, Mr Netanyahu 
said: “It is unbecoming, it does 
not befit nations who are 
allies, and even does not befit 
nations who are not allies." 



A Jerusalem poster depicting Mr Netanyahu as Mr Arafat under a slogan. “The Liar” 


Russian 
captain 
accused 
of treason 

From Richard Beeston 

in MOSCOW 

THE Russian counter-intelli¬ 
gence service said yesterday 
that a naval captain who 
revealed how nuclear waste 
was dumped at sea by the 
Russian Navy had been 

charged with treason. 

General Viktor Kondraiov. 
the head of the Federal Sec¬ 
urity Service in Vladivostok, 
said that Captain Grigori 
Pasko would be tried for one of 
Russia’s most serious offences, 
which ca rries a sentence of life 
imprisonment. The naval of¬ 
ficer was arrested on Sunday 
after returning from a trip to 
Japan. Before he left Vladivos¬ 
tok, customs officials confis¬ 
cated documents in his posses¬ 
sion about Russia's Pacific 
Fleet. 

Although the authorities in¬ 
sist the matter is a straightfor¬ 
ward case of espionage. Oleg 
Kotlyarov. the captain's law¬ 
yer. said his client had been 
warned repeatedly to drop his 
private investigations into en¬ 
vironmental issues. He wrote 
articles condemning dumping 
at sea. 


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Czechs 
lectured 
by Cook 
on gypsy 


‘asylum’ 


From Charles Bremner 

IN PRAGUE 


ROBIN COOK, tiie Foreign 

Secretary, used a visit to 
Prague yesterday to hammer 
home warnings ro Central 
Europe's gypsies to desist 
from seeking asylum in Brit¬ 
ain and to the Czech Govern¬ 
ment to improve the lot of its 
300.000 Romany population. 

Mr Cook made three strong 
and almost identically worded 
statements on the autumn's 
rush oF gypsies to Dover after 
meetings with President Ha¬ 
vel and the Prime Minister 
and Foreign Minister. “It is 
very important that Britain 
gets across the message that it 
is not a soft touch for anyone 
claiming atylum falsely." he 
said. "I give a very clear 
message to those who are 
contemplating travelling to 
Britain that Britain does not 
have an open door policy to 
those who may alltege persecu¬ 
tion and cannot then prove it." 

Czech society needed to ad¬ 
dress the question of "why so 
many of its people saw no 
future for themselves within 
the Czech Lands", he added. 
Mr Cook acknowledged that 
"the Good appears to have 
dried up". Only six new arriv¬ 
als had been reported this 
month. 

The Foreign Secretary's 
open criticism jarred with the 
message of goodwill that he 
brought to Prague from a 
Britain that, he said, "is firmly 
committed to throwing open 
the doors of the European 
Union to the new democracies 
in the East". Once inside the j 
EU. the Czech people will be i 
able to move freely throughout 
it, he said. 

Prague has announced a 
string of measures to give full 
citizenship and more secure 
lives to gypsies, and it has 
offered to pay about £18,000 to 
bring home those in Britain. 




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35, under sentence of death in Egypt for dte ammpM 
assassination of Atef Sedki, the former Pf™f 
Adel Abdef-M^irid Aitdel-Bari. 37, who » “ 

death for trying to blow up a Cairo bazaar. (Reuters) 


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Leakey party to fight poll 


James Earl Ray, who could die within six months of liver failure, confessed to killing Martin Lutha: King in 1968, but then changed his story 


James Earl Ray must pay 


Nairobi: Safina, the Kenyan opposition party funded by 
Richard Leakey, the conservationist and jala«mtoiogst, 
announced that ft will contest the general election nextrramm 
(David Orr writes). However, Dr Leakey will rwt stand m 
either the presidential or the parliamentary poll. Pau i 7 f“” ®' 
a Safina leader, said: "We will participate but we wffl da so 
under protest because we believe the election cannot be free 
and fair." Safina says the minimum conditions for tree 
ejections are comprehensive constitutional reforms and an 
independent electoral commission. 


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Bushfires hit Australia 


$250,000 to stay alive 


Sydney: More than 200 bushfires were burning on 
Australia's eastern seaboard and emergency services feared 
more would flare as lightning storms lit drought-nit 
scrubland. Firefighters used helicopters to drop water on one 
big fire in die Blue Mountains, 30 miles west of Sydney, as 
temperatures in some areas of New South Wales and 
Victoria states readied 40C (IQ4F). Emergency powers were 
invoked in five mostly rural areas. (Reuters) 


JAMES EARL RAY. the man 
convicted of killing Martin 
Luther King Jr. the black dvil 
rights leader, needs at least 
$250,000 (£147.000) to pay for 
a life-saving liver transplant 
Doctors say that Ray, 69, 
who suffers from cirrhosis of 
the liver caused by a chronic 
hepatitis C infection he con¬ 
tracted in prison, could die 
within six months if he does 
not receive the transplant So 
far. he *has been unable to 


Martin Luther King’s killer is 
pleading for a liver transplant, 
reports Tunku Varadarajan 


raise any money. 

The $250,000 would secure 
a plaoe on a waiting list for 
transplants at the University 
of Pittsburgh Medical Centre. 
He is serving a 99-year sen¬ 
tence at a jail in Nashville, 
Tennessee, but the state's med¬ 
ical insurance scheme makes 
no provision for transplants. 
No exception is made even for 
prisoners who contract infec¬ 


tious diseases in prison. Since 
he is not insured for the 
operation he needs, the hospi¬ 
tal has demanded that Ray 
post the sum as a bond: 
without that, it will not consid¬ 
er him for an operation. 

In a statement issued on 
Wednesday, the hospital said: 
"Mr Ray cannot be placed on 
the national waiting list until 
certain financial obligations 
are met Since the Tennessee 
Department of Corrections 
will not pay for Mr Ray’s 
transplant, he will be required 
to pay a deposit before he can 
be listed for transplantation, 


as do other patients with no 
insurance cover or medical 
assistance." 

The hospital statement went 
on to say that Ray could not 
expect to be treated differently 
merely because he was a 
prisoner in poor health: "It is 
the philosophy of the hospital 
that all patients be treated 
equally and fairly, and that 
their candidacy for transplan¬ 
tation be judged on medical 
criteria alone.” 

The hospital did not address 
the point, raised by Ray’s 
lawyers, that the patient — an 
imprisoned man — did not 


have die same opportunities to 
raise insurance money as 
might a transplant candidate 
at liberty. In America, medical 
insurance is usually tied to an 
employment contract: Ray, as 
a prison inmate, could not 
secure such a contract 

The money required as de¬ 
posit is not the only obstacle in 
the path of Ray’s transplant 
In order to travel to Pitts¬ 
burgh, he must first secure a 
"medical furlough" from the 
prison authorities in Nash¬ 
ville. He has already been 
rejected once this year when 
he sought permission to go to 
Pittsburgh for medical tests. 

Ray’s latest application for 
leave of absence must be 
approved tty a daunting num¬ 
ber of officials, including the 
Memphis district attorney, 
the prison doctors and, finally, 
the state prisons commis¬ 


sioner. Pam Hoggins, a 
spokeswoman for the Depart¬ 
ment of Corrections, said that 
medical furloughs were rarely 
approved. “A candidate has to 
be pear death," she said: 

The Rev James Lawson,, a 
Methodist minister who was 
with King at the time of his 
assassination, is now attempt¬ 
ing to raise money for Rays 
transplant Yesterday, he re¬ 
vealed that he had raised 
scarcely a cent The King 
family, which has not contrib¬ 
uted money, nonetheless sup¬ 
ports Rays “right" to an 
operation. 

Ray, who confessed to mur¬ 
dering King in. Memphis in 
1968, recanted just two weeks 
after his conviction. Ever 
since, he has fought doggedly 
for a new trial Recently, he 
secured the support of King’s 
own.son. 


Japanese broker’s suicide 


Osaka: An employee of a company linked to Yamaichi 
Securities, the failed Japanese broker, lulled himself by 
jumping from a b uildin g in Osaka's financial district Police 
said Seiichi Tanigashira, 40. a deputy section chief at 
Taiheiyo Securities, jumped from the roof of a seven-floor 
buffeting near Taiheiyo’s office. No suicide note has been 
found. Yamaichi owns 40 per cent of Taiheiyo. (Reuters) 


Mexico seizes immigrants 


Mexico Gty. Polke in the central Mexican state of Puebla 
found 75 illegal immigrants, mostly from Central America, 
who had been hidden inside an empty petrol tanker heading 
for the US border for four days without food or water. Most 
of tiie migrants, who included Chinese nationals, were 
treated for severe dehydration. (Reuters) 


‘Seducer’ on trial in Iran 


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Tehran: A foreigner in Iran is to stand trial for allegedly 
seducing around 40 young women, a newspaper reported. 
The suspect, whose identity and nationality were not 
disclosed presented him self as a diplomat and "collaborat¬ 
ed" with staff at an unnamed Western embassy, it said./AFP) 


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being introduced at American universi¬ 
ties, taking its place alongside such areas 
as Black Studies, Women’s Studies and 
GayTheoty. • 

The new field, establishing itself in 
departments of anthropology, sociology 
and history, focuses on such esoteric 
areas as the history of "blackface", the 
"deconstruction of white trash" and tiie 
psychology of white militias. 

In an intriguing essay devoted to the 
phenomenon, to be published on Sunday 
in The New York Times Magazine, Mar¬ 
garet Talbot suggests that the aim of the 
course is to give whites "the same kind of 
critical ... scrutiny that self-defined 


marginatised groups have long trained 
On themselves". " ; • 

The.new discipline is gaining' grmihd '( 
in such institutions as Macalester Coll¬ 
ege in St Paul, Duke University, North¬ 
western University in Chicago, and even 
at Berkeley. In the past year, "whiteness" 
scholars have published such texts as 
Critical \ White Studies, a textbook 
Displacing Whiteness, a psychoanalyti¬ 
cal study of white identity; How the frisk 
Became White, examining die labour ' 
competition between Irish immigrants 
and freed black slaves; and Making 
Whiteness, a study of how whites in the 
Sooth "remade" the idea of racial 
superiority after the Ctvfl War. 

The tenor of this scholarship, and of 
White Studies in general, is Ear from 
triumphalist or racist On the contrary, it 


is bring sold by its practitioners as an 
; audacious attempt to'resolve America’s 
riicial conflicts. According to Ms Talbot 
"tiie whole enterprise gives whites a kind 
of standing hi the multicultural para¬ 
digm they have never before enjoyed". 

* The. aim .of many of the proponents ofd. 
White Sudies is to dislodge the well- 
established view in America that whites 
are "the norm", and that they transcend 
the identity debate which rages in 
America. According to Annalee Newitz. a 
Berkeley scholar who co-edited White 
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white folk"), “whites are said to consider 
themselves a neutral universal category, 
hence non-rariai and superior to 
’radalised' others ... their self-image as 
whites is thus both underdeveloped and 
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propriation of more than 12 
million hectares of while- 
owned farmland as the contro¬ 
versy takes on increasingly 
racial tones. 

A proclamation is due to be 
issued, naming up to 1,800 
farms for “compulsory acqui¬ 
sition" for redistribution 
among blacks, a process 
which President Mugabe has 
said must be completed fry the 
end of the year. 

He has also ordered the 
government printer to ensure 
that the list of farms is issued 
on time, to enable him to 
present it as a fait accompli ar 
the annual conference of his 
Zanu (PF) party next week. 

A meeting on Wednesday 
between Mr Mugabe and 
Nick SwanepoeL president of 
the Commensal formers 
Union (CPU), most of whose 
4500 members are whites, 
faffed to achieve any conces¬ 
sions. Mr Mugabe wants to 
return to blacks die land 
"stolen" by successive British 
and Rhodesian administra¬ 
tions after the settlement of the 
country a century ago. 

The CFU has been given a 
list of tiie farms, but the 4.500 
members have been warned 
not to make it public until ii 
has been formaBygazetted. 

Q Veterans’ tax: The Govern¬ 
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workers and millions of youth 
volunteers in a spectacular 
push against poliomyelitis, lx 
will be the single biggest 
immunisation programme in 
history, reaching at least 125 
million children. 

Hie decline in polio in the 
sub-corttinent over the past 
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in Sri Lanka,'ft may already 
lave been "beaten. Pakistan 
and India should be largely 
clear of the virus in three 
years, when it is hoped that 
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defeated disease. 

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the disease, and India hopes to 
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the World Health Organis-. 
ation (WHO) by 2005. On one 
day next month, and again in 
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ond dose, volunteers will ad¬ 
minister vaccines to at least 97 
per cent of children under the 
age of five. 

The logistics are staggering. 
Vaccines will be delivered to 
650.000 booths, located so that 
most people will be within 
walking distance of one. The 
army and paramilitary forces 
will provide transport. Two 
million health walkers have 
been hired by the Government 
and the WHO. 

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Thomas reports 
on the biggest 
immunisation 
plan in history 

nificant force behind the 
worldwide campaign against 
polio, has donated £325 mil¬ 
lion for vaccines and publicity, 
material for the drive.- - 
Before the campaign started 
two years ago — later than 
most other parts of the world 
— India had 60 per cent of the 
globe's polio cases. The figure 
is now half that 
This win be the third and 
biggest operation of its kind in 
the past two years, proving to 
sceptics that Indian anarchy 
can give way to efficiency. 
Britain, Japan, Denmark and 
the United Nations are con¬ 
tributing 05 million. The 
operation will be repeated next 
year and. if necessary, for up 
to two mce-e years after that to 
ensure eradication. 

• Many new-born children 
missed the last two immunisa¬ 
tion drives- because mothers 
were unable to get them to 
booths. This time there will be 
more mobile booths, as well as 
house-to-house visits to areas 
where polio has been reported. 

.. The West is freeof polio and 


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Pakistan crisis 


From Zahid Hussein in Islamabad 


THE Pakistani Array, which 
has ruled tie country for half 
its existence, now finds itself in 
a difficult role of mediator in a 
-confrontation between die 
President, the Prime Minister 
and the Chief Justice. 

With the country. ^jfting 
towards anarchy, the reluc¬ 
tant generals, may bejonped fo ( 
act in an effort to saryage the 
country's 6dtq^fferaqi^c& 

General Jahangir Karaxnat, 
foe Chief of Staff, who cut 
short an official visit to Britain 
last week, met the warring 
political leaders .but failed to 
break the. stalemate that has 
paralysed the country for the 
past eight weeks. 

Hie situation took an ugly 
turn yesterday when members 
of the ruling Pakistan Muslim 
League heckled; Sajjad Eli 
ShaXthe Chief Justice, during 
a court hearing, demanding 
that he step down. Hundreds 
of others demonstrated their 


- opposition to the Chief justice, 
who arrived at the court under 
military escort 

Mr Chief Justice Shah is 
locked in a constitutional bat- 
tie with Nawaz Sharif, the 
: Rime Minister. The conflict 
flaredvlast month over the 
appointment of Supreme 
„Ccrjut judges. The standoff. 
'. jqjensffi^ v&ien the' Chief 
i justice sqrpmpocd.Mr Sharif 
.. and chaiged'Mm with con¬ 
tempt- of. court The! Chief 
Justice has also struck out 
several laws. passed by 
parliament 

The confrontation between 
the executive and the judiciary, 
has also involved President 
.. Leghari and the antiy. Mr 
Sharif has ftroeatmed. to im¬ 
peach the Resident for sup: 
porting, the Chief Justice. 
There is also a move to revive 
the Council of Defence and 
..National Security to enshrine 
the army’s political role. 


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and Cambodia. Africa re¬ 
mains a problem - area. -In 
India, it is down 78 per cent 
from two years ago. 

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wiD involve the distribution of 
3S0 million doses of oral 
vaccine, all of which must be 
kept cooL Teachers and 
schoolchildren, and millions 
of members of the -Nehru 
Youth Organisation, which is 
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grassroots bodies, will join 
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spreading (he word. 

Around the world it is 
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sis- The number of reported 
cases so far this year in India 
is around 700. although many 
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□ Afghan blight: Despite a 
vaccination programme, polio 
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landmines, according to 
Belgian researchers. (Reuters) \ 



Stricken basilica in 
Assisi to reopen 


From Richard Owen in assisi 


A face begins to emerge from fragments of the damaged Assisi frescoes 


NINE weeks after the earthquake 
that destroyed irreplaceable works 
of art in Assisi part of the great 
Basilica of St Francis is to reopen 
this weekend. 

Father Nicola Giandomenico. the 
bursar and the friars' spokesman, 
said the badly damaged Upper 
Church would stay dosed for re¬ 
pairs, bill the Lower Church would 
open its doors to the public: He also 
announced that state television 
would broadcast a Christinas Eve 
concert from Assisi, conducted by 
Claudio Abbada as an “act of faith 
in the basilica's future”, followed by 
Midnight Mass celebrated by the 
Pope in St Peter’s, Rome. 

The reopening comes amid an 
increasingly healed debate over the 
fate of badly damaged medieval and 
Renaissance frescoes. Antonio 
Ftiolucd, the former Culture Minis¬ 
ter in overall charge of the restora¬ 
tion, caused a furore by suggesting 
that the frescoes should be recreated 
or reconstructed by restorers using 
modem materials to “fill in the 
gaps” between recovered fragments. 

Signor Paolucri said the frescoes 
by Cimabue, Giotto and other 13th- 
century masters in the Lower 
Church were “relatively intact, 
though dusty”, and the building had 
been reinforced to make it structur¬ 
ally sound and safe for visitors* In 
the Upper Church, however, jagged 


holes still gape in the great vaulted 
ceiling where the majestic figures of 
Cimabue’s The Acts of the Apostles 
and Giotto's The Doctors of the 
Church once gazed down at visitors. 
Eighty square yards of damaged 
frescoes have been swept up, form¬ 
ing what La Repubblica called “the 
biggest jigsaw puzzle in history”. 

Some faces are beginning to 
emerge from the rubble at the hands 
of Paab Passalacqua, the chief 
technical restorer, starting with St 
Rufino, the 3rd-ccntuxy bishop of 
Assisi. He is one of 16 figures — 
including St Francis and St Clare — 
that before the collapse decorated 
the soaring painted arch which 
adjoined and supported the Doctors 
of the Church frescoes. Like the 
Doctors, the figures on the arch are 
attributed to the young Giotto. 

However, veteran experts such as 
Leocetto Tintori, who restored fres¬ 
coes damaged by Allied bombs in 
Pisa and Prato after the Second 
World War. argue passionately that 
it is a tragic mistake to paint in 
missing sections since “respect for 
the work of the original artist” must 
be the guiding principle. 

Signor Paolucri insists that the 
frescoes at Assisi were designed as 
“a harmonious artistic whole”, and 
to leave “lots of white gaps” would 
“offend the eye. They would stick 
out like a sore thumb.” 


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Winnie Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu during a break in evidence yesterday 

Police arrest tenth of the force 


From Acence France-Presse 

IN JOHANNESBURG 

MORE than 10.000 South African 
police — almost a tenth of the force 
— were arrested in the 15 months 
from January 19% to May 1997 for 
alleged crimes ranging from 
armed robbery and theft to rape 
and corruption. 

Sydney Mufamadi, the Safety 
and Security Minister, has told 
parliament that the 10L3J3 officers 
were linked to crimes including 
107 armed robberies, 653 thefts, 193 


corruption cases, illegal possession 
of firearms, rape, reckless driving 
aod murder. Of those held, 412 
have so far been convicted. 

In die most recent incident. 
Inspector Thembinkosi Ntando. 
31, was apprehended for robbing a 
post office. Charges included rob¬ 
bery, illegal possession of a firearm 
and car theft He fled before trial 
and is still at large. 

Joseph Ngobeni, a police spokes¬ 
man said the reasons police 
turned to crime “can be attributed 
to a lade of self-discipline and a 


lack of loyalty and pride in the 
South African police services" 

The problem had been exacer¬ 
bated by the amalgamation of 
apartheid’s II policing agencies —■ 
and 11 different disciplinary codes 
— under one democratic policing 
umbrella, in 1995. 

However, he maintained that the 
problem was being addressed, and 
that “one uniform single code of 
conduct was implemented last 
month to prevent confusion, which 
we hope will assist towards our 
goals". 


quail in face ol 
Mrs Mandela 


LEADING members of the African 
National Congress feared Winnie 
MadBazda-Mandela and her 
bodyguards and failed to end her 
reign of terror in Soweto, Archbish¬ 
op Desmond Tutu'S Truth and 
Reconciliation Commission heard 
yesterday. 

Senior ANC officials who testi¬ 
fied yesterday said they had strug¬ 
gled for weeks to secure the release 
of four township youths allegedly 
abducted and tortured by Mrs 
Mandela and her “Mandela United 
Football Club" bodyguard in 1988 
and 19S9. However, none was 
willing to say she held them against 
their will. 

They also declined to explain why 
they did not ask to see the youths, 
whom Soweto residents and Bishop 
Peter Storey, then head of the 
Methodist Church in Johannes¬ 
burg, believed were being tortured. 

The ANC veterans were mem¬ 
bers of a group known as the 
Mandela Crisis Committee, set up 
to try to restrain the football dub. 
They told die commission that they 
had tried cautiously to investigate 
reports chat Stompie Moeketsi 
Seipei. a teenage activist, had been 
assaulted and possibly killed at 
Mrs Mandela's home. They visited 
her to plead for the release of 
Stompie and other activists. 

The ANC leaders testified that 
they were frustrated by her behav¬ 
iour. and produced documents sent 
to Oliver Tam bo. then president of 
the parly, and to Nelson Mandela, 
which said she should be isolated 
and the football dub disbanded. 

But faced with Mis Mandela 
herself, in a white and black spotted 
suit and designer sunglasses, their 
critidsm turned to mumbles and 
evasions. 

Bishop Storey said that while (he 
cancer of South Africa had been 
apartheid, it had resulted in “sec¬ 
ondary infections which eroded 
some people's sense of right and 
wrong". He suggested that the 
Mandela Crisis Committee was as 
much concerned with “damage 
control" as it was with ensuring the 
release of the abducted youths. 

Mrs Mandela, who is seeking the 
deputy presidency of the ANC at 
next month's conference, faces ac¬ 
cusations of up to 13 murders and 
numerous human rights abuses 
during the time when President 
Mandela was still a prisoner. 

Frank Chikane. former leader of 


Sam Kfley sees 
veterans admit 
that they did not 
dare stand up for 
abducted youths 

the South African Council of 
Churches and now a senior adviser 
to Thabo Mbdti. the Deputy Presi¬ 
dent, said he was part of the 
Mandela Crisis Co mm ittee. The 
reaction of‘Mama' was of a person 
under siege. The reaction was to 
say: You are talking like the 
[apartheid] system." he said, using 
the name by which supporters refer 
to Mrs Mandela. 

Aubrey Mokoena. now an MP, 
declined under repeated question¬ 
ing to condemn directly Mrs 
Mandela’s actions and said she 
might have been unaware of the 
criminal and brutal behaviour of 
her entourage. 

Sydney Mufamadi, who was also 
a member of the group and is now 
minister in charge of die police, 
said they were once allowed to meet 
three of the five youths, allegedly 
being held at Mrs Mandela's home. 

Mr Mufamadi said all three bore 
fresh wounds, but that the other 
two attributed their injuries to 



Chikane “She was like; 
a person under siege” 


falling from trees.. He said the 
group did not dare to confront Mrs 
Mandela with ihe aDegation that 
the boys had been kidnapped and 
were being assaulted because they 
co ul d not offer die children 
sanctuary. 

Mr Mufamadi earlier submitted 
to the commission several internal 
documents, including (me which 
reported to ANC leaders. One read: 
“It is with a feeling of terrible 
sadness that we consider.it neces¬ 
sary to express our reservations 
about Winnie Mandela’S judgment 
in relation to the Mandela Football 
Club." 

In another teeter, the group 
appealed to Tambo in London: 
“Help us. Map out the way forward 
... pertaining to Winnie’s political 
life." • 

However, while members of the 
Mandela Crisis Committee ap¬ 
peared unwilling to censure her 
directly, a senior member of the 
Government accused Mrs Man¬ 
dela of condoning or participating 
in criminal activity and said she 
should be declared unfit to hold 
public office. 

Azar Cachalia, now Secretary for 
Safety and Security, and Murphy 
Morobe, a former activist who now 
heads the Government's Financial 
and Fiscal Commission, testified 
jointly about the football dub’s 
reign of terror. 

In what Mr Cachalia. called 
“perhaps the most sickening case". 
he said two youths were abducted 
to Mrs Mandela's home during the 
final phase of white rule and were 
accused by the football dub, which 
he called “a vigilante gang", of 
being police informers. 

“On one of titan the letter ‘M’ 
was sliced into his chest with a 
penknife and the words “Viva ANC 
were carved down his right thigh. 
The second youth also had the 
words ‘Viva ANC carved cm his 
back. 

“At best for Mrs Mandela, she 
was aware and encouraged this 
criminal activity. At worst she 
directed hand actively pa r tic ipat ed 
in the assaults," Mr Cachalia said. 
□ Ret Retiefr Truth commission 
investigators have found the bodies 
of more than 260 ANC guerrillas 
kflJed and secretly buried fry- toe 
apartheid security forces, ajupves-. 
tigator said: Fifteen bodies were 
exhumed near the border , with 
Swaziland yesterday. (AFP) 


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By Nigel Hawkes 
SCIENCE EDITOR 

THE first inhabited land to 
greet the sun as the new 
millennium dawns will be Pitt 
Island, a rocky New Zealand 
dependency that is borne to 
750 people and 250,000 sheep. 

Standing mi Hakepa Hill, 
toe lucky islanders and any 
tourists and television crews 
tfeat have paid to attend will 
see the sun rise 14 seconds 
before 4.45am focal tune on 
foe morning of January 1. 
2000. In Britain, it vrill still be 
4pm on the afternoon of 
December 3L 1999. The truly 
adventurous might anticipate 
the Pitt Island dawn by five 
minutes by going to the 
uninhabited Antipodes Is¬ 
lands farther south. 

The cafculatians appear in 
the latest edition of The 
Geographical Journal. Un¬ 
important as they seem, much 
may hang on them, because 
two rival groups are aiming to 
sell television and media 
rights to the first sunrise of the 
Hew millennium. 

.. One group is headed by 
Norris McWhirter, the former 
GnfnJKB Book of Records 
editor, who is also one of the 
a i ft o n of the Geographical 
Journal article. Its results will 
please him, because the Mil- 
fcaaium Adventure Company 
that he heads has bought up 
part of Hakepa Hill and plans 
to sdl the rights. 

A rival consortium. First- 
Light 2000, has claimed that 
(he hill is usually mist- 
shrouded at dawn, and is 
offering five other sites on Pitt 
Island. The daim has been 
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T ilt trouble with- socialism, accord¬ 
ing to Oscar Wilde, was dial ir 
would take too many evenings! The 
trouble with' hqmbsecuai Jaw .re-, 
form in this country, as it trundled erratical¬ 
ly towards the-achievement of the Sexual 
Offences Act of 1967. was that .it look 
altogether too many mornings, afternoons 
arid-evenings. 

The Public Record Office, has released a 
great tranchepf documents relevant to the 
struggle, mast of them covering familiar 


reference to Capri was particularly deadly. 
This - was the island where, as Suetonius 
recorded, Tiberius trained boys to pleasure 
hhn while swimming. To link a law reformer 
: . to Capri was to associate him with the most 
sadistic decadoice. 

No wonder politicians strode an almost 
■ pathologically healthy note: The Home 
Office spokesman, lord Stonham. told his 

•' fenow p eer s : **110051 have been remarkably 
‘ lucky or exceptionally blind but. during a 
'. fairly active life among mot. including 25 


ground but some of ihenrffuQ of entertain- ' years*partkipatk>n in team games, (did nor 


mem value in their own exasperating way. 

Labouchere’s Amendment, the no- 
torious“Hackmailer - s diarter”of 18 ffi 
that prohibited all ferns of sexual 
activity between meru was tacked onto 
“a BQ1 to make further provision for 
the protection of women and girls” 
and took far- Jess than ah evening to 
bring about The chamber was half 
empty, and. there-■ was-.'virtually no 
debate. It occupies a third of a cofumn 
in Hansard. It tobk millions of man 
hours, from the 1950s on, to Supplant' 
it : ■■ ■ 

It is no news that ' these who 
introduced refeming legislation. 

Lord Arran in theTJpper House .and 
LeoAbseintheLowerihadnoihihgto' 
gain personalty from a ffberalisattoh 
of society's atmosphere; and were 
anxious that .-their position not be 
misconstrued. Arran -lateradmitted to 
having, spent a.year “pennanently.if. 
slightly pickled"; after the walls of Ws 
office, his drib, and many Under¬ 
ground stations were daubed with the 
messageTAmuiHomo*.. V.': . 

Part of lhie documeintation, though, 
is new: a transcript erf a BBC interview 
from June KJ6£ between Loti Abseand. 
Edwards .Gardner^ NIP.-: The 'most. •. 
interesting ^passage was cm from the '■ ] 
broadcast eitiMr for technical reasons- 
or id smooth ruffled feathers. Abse starts fay 
pointing outtharaGovemmentwhich hopes 
to take Britain into the Caramon Market will 
find itsdf ina peculiar porition “if a man can 
be living.with r anadult. -let us say in 
Denmark, andif he'comes into this country, 
he can findhimself $ubiected-l6 the cri minal 
law**.- !■' ’■ 

The invocation of Europie is. astute and 
even prophetic the l967Act wasfound by the 
EuropeanCormfossiori ih J 1981 to have 
breached - the European. Convention; by 
excluding Northern Trdancf from its piovi- 
skms. Buf Edward Gardner shrewdly shifts 
the discussion from Denmark lib somewhere 


: personally encounter homosexuality ... 


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Reformer Leo Abse suffered taunts and abuse 


arts by -most of us know that in Ancient Greeceeven 
i hopes . Olympic heroes took male lovers. Looked at 
tetwfil through the mists of 2,000 years it became 
an ran etherealised and possible. Looked at in a 1965 
ay in -. magistrates court it was at best impossible, 
nmtry,.- ;atw6rst bestial:” 

immal ’ It sounds like an opponent of law reform 
;. • speaking; in fed. it was a supporter. When 

Ce and two. law lords (Kilmuir and Goddard} 
by the'.referred witfi apparent authority to the 
have- existence of “buggers’ dubs" and “sodomite 
by - sorieties" it was Stonham who had to be 
provi- briefed to rebut them. The opinion of the 
' shifts Director of Puhlic Prosecutions was sought 
where •_ His dfice replied that no such places had - 
insidiously southern, tind corrupting. He ‘ existed in London for ten years, according to 
agrees that there is a different atmosphere' Scotland Yard. There was, however, a rider 
“shall we say in a place like Capri?", where. - “We, of course, have had a number of cases 
homosexuality caii be indulged “mi a whim" involving whai may be described as a *nesr 

Mr. Abse is reduced to spluttering “I have of buggers, birt these involved the use of. 
never been to Capri. v . from what you tell premises by these people as a focal point for 
me, I have no desire to go there, because I . meeting Jitim which they would go indepen- 
would find it particularly dflensive. if the - dentiy to other premises to-commit . tinr 
atmosphere whkh eould anly-be shown by - reqtective offences "This is a feniiliar double 
public homosexual behaviour came to my - 7 Standard. /gowith my ^rlfriend to a lovers’ 
notice.“ • . lane.you have sex in public. T go with my 

In a more classically educated age, the wife toa wine and cheese partyiyou frequent 


a nest of buggers. Labouchere’s Amendment 
warped millions of lives between 1885 and 
1967. The best monument to those lives is 
Between The Acts, a book of oral histories 
edited by Kevin Pbner and Jeffrey Weeks, 
full of sadness, humour and revelation. 

These interviews were conducted in 1978- 
79 with the financial help of the Social 
Science Research Council, until an incoming 
Government with a different agenda cut the 
Councils funds. On the evidence of these 15 
life histories, it may be that h was the Second 
World War which made homosexual law 
reform inevitable. When half the world was 
in uniform and far from home, a 
subculture that thrived on anonymity 
received a massive boost, and the 
blackout made darkness general 
public places private. 

Theatregoers in London can cur¬ 
rently learn about the recent Dark 
Ages of homosexual life from two 
plays. The revival of Mart Crowley's 
The Beys in the Band from 1968 at toe 
Aldwych is a reminder of life before 
liberation — a not particularly wel¬ 
come reminder for a gay generation 
that takes its rights for granted. Tam 
Stoppard's The Invention of Love at 
the National Theatre has Labouchere 
as a character, although refracted 
through the memories and imagina¬ 
tion of the play's central character. 
A£. Housmaxu At one point in 
Stoppard’s dream-play. Labouchere 
even claims to have devised his 
amendment as a way of forcing the 
withdrawal of an Act he thought 
badly drafted, and to have no person¬ 
al objection to “a French loss and 
whar-you-fancy between two chaps 
safe ar home with the door shut". If 
only! 

Stoppard in his play is able to do 
c without apparent effort what those 
law reformers found so hard: to take 
homosexual emotion seriously. His Hous- 
man’s jokes and sadnesses, large regrets and 
small fulfilments, are both particular and 
universal pangs. 

In the years immediately after the 1967 
Act. prosecutions went down, not up. Pretry 
policemen were used for purposes of 
entrapment until a year or two ago. There 
are still discriminatory offences on the 
statute book, such as "soliciting for an 
immoral purpose." and there is still no 
equality in the age of consent. 

As the newly released documents reveal, in 
June 1967. Jos£ Aponte from the Attorney- 
General's Office of Puerto Rico, wrote to the 
Home Office, asking for assistance. He had 
been charged with gathering groundwork 
for the sections on homosexuality and 
obscenity of a new penal code for his country, 
and needed help with the “difficult work of 
exploring new ways for a sane and modem 
administration of justice". An official reply 
was duly drafted, laying outtbe glories of the 
British legal system as it applies to those 
areas. A more truthful response at the time 
might have been: If it's sanity and modernity 
you want, ask someone else. 



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Like the real thing, 
but so much better 


W atching the car- 
walk shows for 
the current sea¬ 
son was a bit like 

witnessing a ntfonstruction of 
Noah's Ark. Only occasionally 
did the models come down two 
by two, butthe array of animal 
pelts was striking. From snake 
and crocodile through to cosy 
sheepskins, designers’ animal 
instincts were given free rein. 

Not ail of it was the genuine 
article. To the horror of cam¬ 
paigners, real fur has indeed 
made a comeback. But at the 
same time, artificial substi¬ 
tutes for every type of animal 
skin are finding new credibil¬ 
ity. Faking it is no longer a 
cheapskate's alternative nor a 
reaction to animal rights’ lob¬ 
bying, but a positive choice. 

The British designer Paul 
Frith, whose sleek “leather- 
suiting is sold in the designer 
rooms of Harrods, among 
others, uses almost exclusively 
leatherette. Joseph, while de¬ 
signing and selling the real 
thing, has rescued PVC trou¬ 
sers from their uncomfortable. 

fetishist beginnings. They 
come in every colour, in shiny 
and matte finishes, in fake 
snakeskin, in hipster and boot¬ 
leg cuts... and nobody, but 
nobody, would judge them 
inferior to leather. 

As designers have experi¬ 
mented, so the high street has 
been able to get in on the act. 
producing leatherette side- 
split skirts, jackets, suedette 


Faking it is no longer the cheapskate’s alternative, 
nor is it a reaction to the animal rights lobby. It’s 
fashionable, says Style Editor Grace Bradbeny 


shirts and trousers, and take- 
fur collared coats that are 
desirable in their own right, 
rather than as cheap copies of 
catwalk designs. All the leath¬ 
ers, suedes and furs shown, 
here axe fake. 

Indeed, the fake fabrics 
themselves are taking on a 
style status of their . own. 
independent of the things they 
were designed to imitate. Ste¬ 
phen Higginson, editor of 
International Textiles, com¬ 
pares it to the rise of Austra¬ 
lian and New Zealand wines: 
“When people first began 
drinking them, they would 
talk of a wine being like a 
bordeaux or a French 
chardonnay. Then it became. 
This isn't like anything, it is 
what it is.' Similarly with these 
new fabrics. As designers ex¬ 
periment, their artificiality is 
seen as a positive thing." 

Breakthroughs in technol¬ 
ogy have given the new fabrics 
breath ability, and Lycra has 
added stretch. Other advances 
in microfibres have vastly 
improved the tactile qualities 
and appearance. Some are 
more versatile than real ani¬ 
mal skins. They also take 
colour better, and their perfor¬ 
mance ratings are higher. 


Even so. says Higginson: 
“At the designer end of tilings 
you never quite know what 
things are made of, unless it's 
a capsule collection made at 
the behest of, say. TenceL 
"Rich people always like to 
think that they’ve got the 
genuine article. But style is 
everything now. Ifs what it 


‘It’s far more 
exciting to 
source a new 
fabric than 
to buy part 


of a cow’ 


locks like and feels like that 
counts." 

The attachment to the real 
thing, however, remains 
strong with more status-orien¬ 
tated consumers. In The Lan¬ 
guage of Clothes, Alison Lurie 
suggests: To some extent 
fabric always stands for the 
skin of the person beneath it" 
This can be purely to do with 


visual impact — the cold¬ 
blooded impact of snakeskin, 
the sexual connotations of fox 
fur and the “foxy lady" image. 
But it can boil down to money. 
As Lurie puts it "Most pur¬ 
chasers of for coats are unfa¬ 
miliar with the behaviour of 
the beasts from which they 
come: all they want to say is ’I 
am a very expensive animal.*" 

In this spirit, American 
Vogue ran an entire shoot 
called Svelte Felts in which 
everything was real. Dolce & 
Gabbana and Gucci’s fox-fur 
trimmed coats, Eire's Mongo¬ 
lian lambswool coat, and 
Versace's cashmere cardigan 
with fox-for trim were exer¬ 
cises in unabashed 
consumption. 

At the other end of the scale 
from this kind of retro roman¬ 
ticism, however, slouches foe 
high-trash rock chick glamour 
of Alexander McQueen and 
Anna Moiinari Ptinched-out 
holes, slashed fringing and 
“binliner"-style dresses with 
flat necklines hark back to the 
style of such tough rock 
women as Chrissie Hynde, 
Patti Smith and Siouxsie 
Sioux. It's a punk-goth- 
rocktttoU thing, reminiscent 
of Kensington Market in the 


late Seventies and the early 
Eighties. 

Thankfully, stylists have 
found a middle ground be¬ 
tween this kind of hard-edged 
aesthetic and the romantic 
opulence of designers such as 
John Galliano for Dior and 
Dolce & Gabbana. By mixing 
fabrics and putting tradition¬ 
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with lighter textures, they’ve 
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that softens and feminises 
Eighties aggro-chic, and tones 
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Shapes are sleek and colours 
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T ake away the styling, 
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Some of foe most interesting 
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Is Blair too 
flexible to 


be a friend? 


The trade unions still have their 
reservations, says John Lloyd 


F lexibility is one of the 
great words of the end of 
the millennium. It has 
resonance. We know it is in 
some way right It signifies the 
end of an era of late-industrial 
relationships in which places 
were, for a time, known and in 
which classes were, though 
never static, defined. It points 
out the potentials and dilem¬ 
mas of an age in which 
symbols are often more impor¬ 
tant chan objects. Its very 
omni-applicability and vague¬ 
ness excite the imagination. It 
conjures up a world of endless 
malleability'- in which the 
blocks and contradictions of 
life can be dissolved in an 
appeal to be flexible. 

The logic of an age in which 
information-based capitalism 
is so rapidly replacing indus¬ 
trial capitalism means thatthe 
moorings to which societies 
tied themselves are loosened. 
Vo skiff is forever ieamr: no 
corporation is secure; no job, 
nr at least no job description, is 
for life. Even if the insecurities 
of modem employment have 
been exaggerated, there is no 
doubt that rhe insecurities feit 
by many workers in advanced 
societies are real. 

Flexibility in work seems to 
mean the emergence of a 
society in which a few who can 

best grasp and ma- _ 

nipulate both infor¬ 
mation and people Bliti 

are rewarded 
highly. They be- the e 

come, in Tom 
Wolfe's satire of the COUfl 

information society. _.l.- 

The Bonfire of ihe WIU 

Vanities, “Lords of fjjfTJ 

the Universe". The e 

majority cope with 
the new societies more or less 
well. They are often enriched 
' by the intellectual possibilities 
opened for them and by the 
end of the settled, sometimes 
oppressive relationships 
which characterised the indus¬ 
trial order. 

But a large number are 
excluded and marginalised. 
They are useless — literally — 
for there is simply no work for 
their idle hands. Their intel¬ 
lects have not been trained, or 
they do not stretch them, to 
cope with even the lower lewri 
of information tasks. Karl 
Man saw the rise of the 
proletariat as a force which 
could artd would expropriate 
the expropriators, or capital¬ 
ists. Now', the new Lords of the 
Universe are expropriating the 
proletariat. A new capitalism's 
flexible financial universe ren¬ 
ders the workers workless, 
and makes of them an 
underclass. 

This is the universe in which 
new Labour operates. Jr is 
itself a lord of it. This week, 
one of new Labour's more 
ambiguous figures tried to set 
some solid ground below his 
pan of it John Monks. Gener¬ 
al Secretary of the TUC, is 
ambiguous nor in his person, 
but in his relation to the 
"project". He has been seen, 
nor wholly wrongly, as in¬ 
voked. He explicitly pursues a 
new unionism, seeking (as all 
union leaders in advanced 
societies must) to marry’ neces¬ 
sary flexibility with the contin¬ 
uation of a trade union role. 

Yet he gave a speech on 
Wednesday evening to the Jim 
Conway Foundation which 
took direct issue with flexibili¬ 
ty' in its new Labour guise. 
Conceding rhe centrality of the 


Britain is 
the easiest 
country in 
which to 
fine people 


word, he said that it "con¬ 
cealed more than it illuminat¬ 
ed". New ways of working 
were inevitable: a recasting of 
industrial society and of wel¬ 
fare states overdue. 

But. he held, the awkward 
fact was that flexibility was 
interpreted as a lowering or 
ending of employment protec ; 
non: declining unionisation: 
lower unemployment benefits. 
Britain, he said, tops the 
flexibility' league in twp ways: 
it is the easiest country in 
which to fire people and it has 
the lowest capital employed 
per worker. 

Nor can it be said that 
where unions are strong, em¬ 
ployment protection robust 
and benefits high, there is 
always higher unemployment. 
Then? is such a relationship if 
there are no active labour 
market policies: but otherwise 
no such conclusion can be 
drawn. He has put these 
points to the Prime Minister. 
The Prime Minister said he 
was interested, and asked for 
more information. 

Tony Blair may well be 
interested. But he is governed 
by a fear—a fear of being seen 
to slip back into old Labour 
attitudes. Thus when he was 
interviewed about his pitch to 
fellow European heads of gov- 

_ cm men t at the jobs I 

summit in Arnster- 
[n jg dam last weekend, | 
he said three times 
siest that the way to cre¬ 

ate jobs “is not to 
7 m load a whole lot of 

l f n costs on business" 

1 lu but to invest in edu- 

Ople cation, setting a sta- 

^ ble framework. 

Gordon Brown’s 
green Budget this past week 
was a lesson in setting a stable 
framework, new Labour-style. 
In confirming the cut in bene¬ 
fits to single-parent families by 
up to £11 a week and at the 
same time assisting the poorer 
pensioners over the winter, he 
gave flesh to what has always 
been his conception — ' to 
attract or push the able-bodied 
imo work of any kind, and to 
be as generous as prudence 
allows to the old and rhe sick. 


T his is why the Labour 
leadership is nervous 
about the pro-trade 
union measures to which they 
arecommitted — especially the 
minimum wage and statutory 
recognition of trade unions. 
The leadership wants the 
wage to be set just above a 
level at which it would be 
wholly meaningless; and it 
wants the unions to produce 
an agreement with die CBI 
which will show’ its members 
to be happy to recognise 
unions where they organise a 
majority of workers. It fears it 
will get neither — and if so. 
that it will have industrial 
battles, and turn a flank to the 
Tories at last. 

John Monks wants to many 
flexibility with social justice, 
including social justice at 
work. New Labour likes the 
sound of that; but the reality of 
it will be hard to deliver. The 
Prime Minister shies away 
from if as a horse from fire. 
This Government will try. 
which is more than one could 
say of the last one. But it will 
take a very good rrick indeed 
to pull off such a marriage. 


77ie author is associate editor 
of the New Statesman. 





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THE TIMES PPTnAV NOVEMBER 281997 



And then there were none 


I was about seven, and we lived 
in Nicosia. My friend was a 
good-natured boy called David 
Gray. A year older, he was from 


1 good-natured boy called David 
Gray. A year older, he was from 
a Yorkshire family and talked like 
William Hague. 

We both had bicycles: his new, 
mine with no brakes. Playing by the 
dried-up river, we agreed it would be 
dangerous and fun to try freewheel¬ 
ing down the steep trade to the 
bottom of the gorge. I urged David to 
try. an my old bike. I did mention the 
problem with the brakes but suggest¬ 
ed that this added to the exdtemenL 
Oddly, in retrospect, David did not 
insist that a more suitable person to 
take risks on my bike was me. “Go 
on." I said, “you try!" 

He did. He gathered speed, lost 
balance and fell off. Though not 
seriously hurt, he gashed ms jaw. 
David, if you are alive and reading 
this, I am sorry I talked you into iL 
And i am truly sorry feat when you 
staggered back up the trade wife 
blood on your face. I lost my nerve 
and scarpered. I was afraid of your 
mother. The incident reflects badly 
on my character. 

And now a new danger. People in 
newspapers are persuading William 
Hague to go freewheeling without 
brakes down a steepening slope: and 
although I am sure feat if william 
falls off, Bruce Anderson would own 
up and take him home, no stitches 
would mend Mr Hague'S leadership 
as they did Master Gray’s jaw. 

One cites Bruce Anderson, the 
political editor of 77ie Spectator, 
because nobody more persuasively 
puts fee case for brakeless bicyding. 
He put it to me. on the letters page 
opposite. I had written in these 
columns that since Oppositions do 
nor govern, they should feel in no 
hurry to settle policy on every 
awkward issue. Who knows? I said, 
events may settle the single currency 
question. Europhiles or Eurosceptics 
may wish to shift position later. 

Bruce disagrees. He wrote The 
Times a courteous letter putting with 
passion the case for decisive action to 
settle the Tory course at once in a 
Euroscepnc direction. If there are 
some who are reluctant to march, he 
said, it is better they leave now. His 
argument is powerful, rational and 
profoundly unwise. 

Anderson has been impressed, I 
suspect, by the way Labour has dealt 
with its hard Left. He concludes fear 
you can strip backsliders from a 
political party rather as you pick fee 
black bits from a peeled potato, 
leaving- an essentially wholesome 


Casting out his Europhiles would lose 
Hague allies and not impress voters 


vegetable for the pot. And the sooner 
the better. 

So there are a few wobblers over 
Hague's “not for a decade” approach 
to the single currency? So what? Ten 
times that number are loyal. Good 
riddance to dissenters! Teach them a 
lesson, stiffen fee doubters, impress 
the public, kill the issue in fee press, 
and free Hague’s sword to strike at 
Labour! Look what leaving fee 
dispute to simmer did to Major. Let’s 
sort this thing out once for aJL 

Ah Bruce, readTambu rlaine. How 
balefully does that sentiment “once 
for all" echo down fee centuries. How 

much blood which __ 

drew more blood, 

how many wars-to- tf~J\ jf* 

end-allAvars, final /H /I///' 

reckonings whose N-*' ___ 

bottom fine began a ■ 

new and bitter ac- #-Vj 

count, how many • 

partnerships which — - 

foundered upon the 
rock of a truth feat should never have 
been spoken ... do we owe to fee 
impatient rationality which insists 
we stop the jaw-jaw, cock our pistols 
and be done with it? 

The Conservative Party is not a 
potato, and its “positive Europeans" 
are not isolated and superficial rotten 
spots upon the dean, white, orthodox 
flesh of Eurosceptirism. The better 
analogy is wife peeling an onion. As 
wife an onion, there is no "core" 
Conservative Party but an interleav¬ 
ing of layers, all of them mternal to 
the organism. Your onion, and your 
Tory party, do not divide into kernel 
— “essential onion"—and peek In the 
end it is all peel. Remove one layer 
and you expose the next. 

I hold no brief for Hugh Dykes. 
His arrogant certainties on Europe 
irritate me. But he is no socialist Peel 
off Dykes and you expose Peter 
Tempfe-Morris. 

I hold no brief for Peter Temple- 
Morris. His limits' annoys me. But 
he is not a had man. He managed to 
stay a Consen’ative MP for 23 years, 
most under the leadership of Marga¬ 
ret Thatcher. So peel off Temple- 
Morris, you say, Bruce? Heaven 
knows it was easy rejustify: Peter was 
offside and will not be missed. 

But was it necessary? To push him 
before he jumped restored a dignity 
he had begun to lose — but push they 


did. One more layer of peel departs 
the onion. Edwina Currie will be 


the onion. Edwina Currie wul be 
exposed next. Well. Bruce. I can hear 
you as I write: hooray, you say, fee 
sooner that cow departs, the better. 

I do not agree. Edwina is infuriat¬ 
ing and her mania for publicity, I 


Howe is openjy .obntefnptuous and 
Douglas Hurd .privately dismissive. . 

It is 1999. Mr Hague how depends 
very heavily on John Redwood, 
Michael Howard, Brian Mawhin- 
ney, Iain Duncan Smith (who has 
brought Julian Lewis and John 
Bereow in on his coat-tails) and Alan 
Duncan. Julian Brazier is made a 


know, drives colleagues up fee wall. 
But she is also a talented, brave and 


c {Matthew 


But she is also a talented, brave and 
thoughtful woman, and one of fee 
best communicators the Tories have. 

Ah well, another one bites the dust 
A leaner, fitter onion now? 

And then you have David Curry 
and Ian Taylor, both of whom have 
quit as Tory spokesmen. I hear no 

_ breath from either 

7 fefo they would am- 

///. , template quitting 

ttnPlV ** party - but in 
V iff JO So/ fee .end both may. ; 

••• •• . ■ These are men of 

- ability and uncom- 

-/ ^ mob sense Fdvotfr; 

- — ■ ^ _ er jumor ntiniSters 

breathed the calm 
competence which was Taylor’s hall¬ 
mark. Currys good brain and palpa¬ 
ble decency marked him for an 
important post in a future Cabinet 
Skip ton & Ripon did not fall, as 
neighbouring Harrogate did. to fee; 
Liberals, but Curry is vulnerable to a 
Lib-Lab voting pact He would be a 
heavyweight catch for the liberal 
Democrats at Westminster — and I 
bet Paddy Ashdown would deaL The 
onion shrinks. Who next? 

I realise Bruce might regard fee 
departure of Sir Edward Heath as a 
cause for celebration, but I do think 
that to lose a former Prime Minister 
would look like carelessness. Anyone 
who thinks Sir Edward incapable of 
this shocking act does not know Ted. 
The party is diminished, but Bruce 
and a platoon of right-wing leader- 
writers are still cheering. 

We peer into the crystal ball 1998. 
The cheering grows a tittle ragged as 
Kenneth Clarke. Chris Patten, Mich¬ 
ael Heseitine and John Gummer are 
rumoured, to be wavering. George 
Young has resigned from the Shadow 
Cabinet. Alastair Goodlad has 
thrown in the towel. Michael Ancram 
mutters. Stephen Darrell stays but, 
with John Maples, looks out of place. 
Norman Fowler. loyal but troubled, 
retires. Cedi Parkinson, retired, is 
rude about his leader at dinner 
parties. Also in the Lords, Geoffrey 


And what baffles pollsters, is that 
respondents consistently ... declare 
their views an Europe to be dosdy 
mirrored by this new Toiylikud; yet 
when asked to choose wards which 
best describe fee Tbries. they select 
“narrow", "ideological", “unkind" 
and “extreme”. Something measured, 
venerable, tolerant; careful; some¬ 
thing ... safe seems to have gone 
from fee Conservative Party. Perhaps 
because we voters are secretly less 
confident of our opinions than we 
. pretend, we place more importance 
on a party’s prudential qualities — ; its 
affability and caution, its, general air 
. .of good sense than upofi jury., 
particular congruence between its 
spokesmen’s opinions - and.our own. 

'• Theyfear 2000 arrives. The Tirii&i 
tuns a leading artide dedaring-that 
fee purge has been more protracted 
than was hoped,, butnow the party is 
ready. At 17 per cent in the polls, it 
can only be up! Heseitine retires and 
at the ensuing ty-dectfon. the Tories 
loseHenley. 

Now Bruce: I don’t know about 
you. my friend, but this prospect does 
not please me. Ybu and I agree about 
the single currency, but our Conser¬ 
vative onion was always a multi¬ 
layered thing and for 20 years — 
since Chris Patten hired us. both at 
fee Conservative Research Depart¬ 
ment —we stayed friends with-Tories 
who took another view. Is tine day 
craning when an openly gay man 
might be waved through into the 
Shadow Cabinet, gufltffy hiding his i 
secret doubt about whether, if the , 
euro succeeds, Tories might not need 
to think again? How far should 
indusiveness go? 

One has to be very sure — gripped, 
by the centrality of one's cause, 
certain it could not be mistaken — 
before one drives old friends away 
instead of trying to talk them round. 
Confident that problems with fee 
single currency will out, I ana nod: so 
inflamed as to be prepared to put my 
party to the sword of my opinions. 

I fear the Conservative Party is 
riding for a fall. Forty years ago I 
(ailed one Yorkshireman by egging 
him on. I will not do fee same to 
another. " 


Royal nosh 


AFTER fee hype surrounding the so-called “people’s banquet", 
celebrations for fee golden wedding of fee Queen and fee Duke of 
Edinburgh are taking a more Traditional turn. The couple have been 
inrired for a secret feed at fee House of Lords, courtesy of fee Privy 
Council. Some 300 politicos are to attend next month — and fee seating 
will conform strictly to rank. "The senior Counsellors will be placed near 
Her Majesty." says the Clerk of the Council, referring to fee Earl of Avon, 
fee Lord Chancellor... you know the crowd. Happily, if also marks a 
w elcome return to the top table for 
fee Earl of Caithness, the former 
minister whose wife. Diana, killed 
herself three years ago. The earI. 
now a successful estate agent, is 
expected io sit close to the Queen. 

People's champions Tony Berm 
and Lord Healey “will sit on other 
tables, slightly farther away". 



spends much of his time ordering 
his M Ps to toe the line. Traditional- 


most of his work was defending the 
"underdog” wives of rich men. 


• TUESDAY found Sir Tim 
Sainshury partying at Somerset 
House, a’ghoulish piece of majori¬ 
ty soon to be refurbished. The 
improvements, promised Sir Tim, 
would include making the court¬ 
yard "free of all cars". Odd. then, 
that staff-had been instructed to 
create U courtyard parking slots 
for P-reg guests. 


The Queen: Lord Caithness 


Phone pest 


IF YOU thought last night's BBC 
coverage from South Africa of fee 


blockbuster Spencer v Spencer was 
a bit thin, blame fee judge. Jeremy 
Vine, fee Beeb’s man, was thrown 
out of court after his mobile phone 
rang. The judge then asked Nicho¬ 
las Mostyn, QC, a London lawyer, 
what would have happened to such 
a culprit in Britain- Mostyn said 
that a fat fine would be in order. 
He was in court as an expert wit- 
' ness for Earl Spencer, attempting 
to prevent his wife from landing 
too juicy a settlement. Odd, then, 
that Mostyn once explained feat 


• NOT CONTENT with the reve¬ 
nue from her salacious screen ap¬ 
pearances, Sharon Stone has 
resorted to busking. Last week 
found her on the platform of a 
New York subway station, subject¬ 
ing her fellow travellers to a rendi¬ 
tion of Amazing Grace. Although 
even the politest present were 
heard to complain that die was 
rather out of tune, several coins 
were tossed in her direction (if only 
to shut her up). 


his M Ps to toe the line. Traditional¬ 
ists will be relieved to hear that this 
will be the only touchy-red y ele¬ 
ment to an otherwise traditional 
service. 

Elion's refusal does not faze fee 
Rev Donald Gray, who will con¬ 
duct next month's ceremony in the 
Crypt Chapel at the House of Com¬ 
mons. “Most couples don’t tend to 
obey." he sal's. “1 always meet cou¬ 
ples before a service and run 
through fee options — fee decision 
is entirely up to them." 

Guests, meanwhile, have been 
startled by the prices of wedding 


gifts on offer at the Wedding Shop. 
“There’s virtually nothing under 
£100." grumbles one. 


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LATEST bulletin from the wed¬ 
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Hague: the refreshingly indepen¬ 
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obey her husband, a man who 



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is thaf Ixjwewa^to^u^ahout 
Gregorian chanting, the music 
practised by the Downside monks, 
who released an album, Gregorian 
Moods. earlicr this month. 

Lowe, who was accompanied by 
the pockmarked old drummer Si¬ 
mon Gilbert, clearly endeared 
himself to his hosts. “He's bril¬ 
liant,” gushes the Headmaster, 
Father Anthony Sutch. "Bur I was 
toe shy to tell them that I’d already 
been to fee Pet Shop Boys concert 
for my birthday." 



Don’t 

kill off 


Keep our energy 


ions open. 


savs Yvette Coo] 


W haTS a bright youjg 
woman like you tog de¬ 
fending an old, dirty, de- 
dining industry like that? This was 
the question implicit in theTfmes 

artide yesterday which deserg^ me 

as a Blairite MP forced to (Mend the 
threatened coal industry. The rour- 
nalist dearly found it hard © b^-ve 
that a young woman, so oasety 
associated wife new Labour, should 
be standing up fear an industry so 
strongly linked to Arthur ScarguL 
. gafeg nawting onr collieries is being 
portrayed as a hopelessly nostalgic 
and uneconomic thing to do. Mod¬ 
em, hard-beaded economists should 
— so the story goes — just let fee 
market rip and shrug their shoulders 


if coal goes under. . 

But to caricature fee debate m this 


way is not just wrong; it is dangerous.. 
Thu is not to say that I believe fee 


Government should leap in whenev¬ 
er big employers are in trouble. lt 
cant. A sensible modem industrial 
policy recognises that in some mar¬ 
kets free competition promotes the 
public interest, but in others — where 
there is monopoly power, for instance 
— regulation is essential- Energy 
markets are already regulated. But 
this is not working to promote the 
public interest Both coal and the 
consumer are losing out 
. When fee energy industry was 
; privatised, the previcxis Conservative 
Goverament harided over fee Son's 
share of our generating cap achy to 
two major companies: PowerGen 
aaxT National Pbwer. This duopoly 
has been able to use fee strange 
mechanism of setting electricity 
prices (the pool) to keep customer 
bills, and fear own prams, unfairly 
high. 

Instead of breaking up the duopo¬ 
ly, reforming fee pool or pushing 
prices down, the regulator chose to 
encourage new companies to enter 
fee market, buffeting power stations 
at (hefr own. As gatriked power 
. stations are cheaper tip construct than 
coal-fired stations, the pushfor new 
players tinned into adash for gas. 

The regulator then pehnrtted these 
new power producers to agree kmg- 
term contracts at high prices 1 with the 

regional ekdxirity companies 'feat 
part-own them and then pass the 
costs onto their captive customers — 

. us. These so-called "sweetheart 
deafe" cpntihoejfo exclude coal Add 
. mfo dte equatic« subsk3ies to foreign 
coal antinuclear power; and it is dear 
^t^dtepl^ingneWisn'tlevy. 
V-'JoMi Bahte’was right to laungfr a 
foil review of fee jfool and to deride 
this week to send those sweetheart 
deals baric to fee regulator fra-review. 
But there Is a further reason for 
action.. 


Kensington’s newest resident 


N o ofeer market could switch 
oiir lights oft our life-sup¬ 
port machines a& our com¬ 
puters off, or—heaven forbid — our 
tekvurians. off. Few other markets 
have such considerable impact on 
our macroeconomic stability either. 
Without coal,, we could end up wife 
7080 _per cent of our_energy needs 
supplied by gas — a vulnerable 
position. In 20 or 30 years’ time (when 
. r shall still be in my fifties), British 
gas may not be as plentiful as it is 
today.With Algeria and Russia as the 
main alternative sources, it doesn't 
[ take a genius to work out that 
political instability could jeopardise 
our. future economic security. Left to 
themselves, markets don’t take ac¬ 
count of those kinds of future political 
risks. Nations must 
_ The economist Dieter Helm, writ¬ 
ing in tite pages of this newspaper, 
recently argued that maintaining 
coal as an "insurance policy" was 
unjustified. The premium, he said, 
was just too great. But haw cm earth 
does he know feat? The Govern¬ 
ment's Energy Advisory Panel on 
which Mr Helm sits, says that not 
enough work has been done to know 
how great the risks really are. 
i ur 8 ent research into the 

level of risk we will face in future, so 

we can. draw up a balanced strategy 
for responding to those risks. 

_It is time to go further. The 
Cfoyeranient. power generators and 

coal producers need to come together 

tagwidy to seek solutions. The Gov¬ 
ernment needs to hasten the pool 
' review. A moratorium should be 
called on new gas-fired power sta- 
ham and we should support fee 
development of dean coal technol¬ 
ogy. Both gas and electricity regula¬ 
tors must now take a more robust 
approach to competition, stop fee 
tofifrfenn gas contracts and damp 
down directly on abuses of market 
power. 

the companies must 
fefctr responsibility to be- 
core more productive and efficient. 

workmg for i contracts rather fean 
playing brinkmanship games with 


i TRIUMPH, at last, for Madon- 
a: after three weeks scouring 


"ft took even lancer to come 
out than one of their pints.” 


na: after three weeks scouring 
London's cul-de-sacs for suitable 
digs, she has bought a house in 
. Kensington for £4 million. The 
pad — bleak, Georgian, off the 
High. Street — needs extensive 
renovation."It doesn't look hugely 
impressive from the outside, but 
irs worth every penny." says a 
friend. “Then’s excellent security 


— it costs £45JXJQ for on under¬ 
ground parking space." Madonna 
will move in mthher omyearold 
daughter Lourdes, whom the sing¬ 
er wants to packoff to a potiteEng -' 
lish prep school—Norland Place, 
Pern brtdge Hall , Kensington 
High. somewhere like thpu. It is 
also believed that she may find 
mom for her latest armrestiAndy 
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GHOSTS OF LABOUR PAST 

Hie minimum wage will benefit no one, least of all.the poor 


Yesterday'S publication .erf the Bill to 
establish a national minnnum wage was an 
act of ancestOT-wbrsihip by die Government, 
a homage to the ghosts of old Labour past. 
Tony Blair's aiobitkzn -to expand peopled 
opportonities in a modem, co mp etitive and 
humane Britain is ilL-served by this irrele¬ 
vant, economicallyflEteraie and potentially 
harmful decision. To adapt Lord Keynes, it 
reveals fee Prime Minister and his foam as 
“the slaves of some defunct trade unionist". 
For Margaret Beckett, the President of the 
Board of Trade, it was “a ytry proud day 
because it is the beginning of the end of 
poverty pay. It is better described as a 
detour from the Government's campaign to . - 
move people off welfare and into work -r a 
strategy in which clumsy interventionist 
tinkering has no logical pike. 

Having fashioned this rod for its own 
bade, the Government now confronts hard 
choices indeed, starting with the rate itself 
and its impact on employment How will 
wages — which in the real world may 
include such things as tips, piecework rat**? , 
payments in kind such as subsidised nasals 
or aaxjrrrmodation — be calculated? How 
will the minimum wage interact with benefit 
and taxes, if low income families are not to 
end up worse off? How often is the rate to be 
raised and on what basis? How can “catch¬ 
up” demands for higher wages by better- 
paid workers, or a growth in sub-mmimum 
wage black market jobs, be avoided? 

Ian McCartney, die minis ter responsible, 
says that it is up to the Low Pay Commission 
to come up with proposals, as also over 
whether to exclude trainees and young 
workers from the law. He insists that 
employers will learn to love the minimum 
wage because it will stop undercutting by 
bad employers and create a “level playing 
field”. But it is by enforcing competition that 


OPEN SEASON 

Hunt supporters must deploy calm reason and compromise 


Twenty years ago the Commons chose to 
decriminalise an' activity which was then 
offensive to many but which, as legislators 
realised, was. even more offensive to liberal 
sentiment 7 to ban. Yesterdays, release of 
papers from the Public Record Office 
remindsus how hard hisrujw to imagine a 
Britain where homosexual acts between 
consenting men in private made convicts of 
the otherwise law-abiding. Those MPs who 
were braveTenou^, fn vbte'fpr tolerance, . 
with their consriences and contrary,10 many 
of their constituents's views; were discharg¬ 
ing the proper duty of parliamentarians. 

Today the Commons win vote to ban the 
actions of another unpopular minority, 
whose recreation, according to libera] senti¬ 
ment, ought not to be made illegal. Yet 
Michael Foster's Wild Animals (Hunting 
with Dogs) Bill is certain to secure an 
overwhelming majority. Although it will not 
become law in this Parliamentary session, 
the will of the Common s is unKbdty to be 
long frustrated. 

The arguments have become bitter on 
both sides. Hcnveverstrongly any individual 
may object to another taking pleasure in 
hunting wild creatures, foot and staghuntmg 
can be vigorously defended as a leisure 
pursuit which a free society should tolerate, 
as an intimate part of rural life, as a source 
of employment and as the most effective 
form of conservation. Those arguments do 
not seem to have weighed with toe majority 
of MPs. or Britain's predominantly urban 
population, and defenders of hunting should 
treat the view of the majoritywith something 
of the respect they rightly demand for their 
own case. Threats of civil disobedience are 
ill-judged and inappropriate. 

Although today's vote will create a 
momentum for abolition, space has been 
created for a longer debate during which a 


thoughtful defence of hunting can be,re¬ 
hearsed. Supporters of hunting owe Thny 
Blair a small, but si gnificant, debt Although 
they may curse his skill as an Opposition 
Leader, which led to a Commons majority 
against them, they should acknowledge the 
wisdom he has shown as Prime Minister in 
managing that majority to allow hunt 
supporters a longer opportunity to be heard. 

. Given time, the case for hunting can make 
converts.. Former officers in toe League 

-Against Cruel Sports, including a past 
executive director, James Barrington* re¬ 
signed from toe organisation because dose 
engagement with argument convinced them 
that aban on faxhunting would not be in the 
interest erf foxes. Hunting kills only a small 
proportion of toe number of foxes culled 
every year; fewer than those controlled by 

• and of shooting which more often maims 
than kills. If hunting were banned the num¬ 
ber erf faxes and deer killed would probably 
rise and some landowners may be tempted 
to use the unarguably crueller methods of 
gassing or poisoning. The recent mass 
culling of stags in the Quantocks is a portent 
of what may await the fax population. 

The deployment erf logic by supporters of 
hunting should be matched by a sensitivity 
to;the concerns of their honest opponents. 
The pro-hunting lobby, rightly, asks for 

- urban Britain to respect the settled habits of 
countrymen, but those who hunt should 
appreciate the strength of genuine revulsion 
inspired by some of hunting’s excesses. A 
willingness to compromise, to explore how 
habits might be changed and legislation 
framed in the best interests of animal and 
man. may lead to a better Bill in a future 
session. Today strong feelings will have an 
outlet In toe months to come there must be 
hard thinking from open min ds. 


HAGUE’S GENDER GAP 

Women need a greater say in die Tory party 


The hats may have gone but toe prejudices 
live on. At toe Conservative Women’s- 
Conference yesterday, there was at best 
amb ivalence about getting more of their 
ranks into Parliament The younger ones are 
keen. But many older women, who domi¬ 
nate Tory selection coinmittees, do not seem 
to care what sex their candidate is, as togas 
he has a wife, good taste in ties and a 
sonorous voice. _ . 

All had to face toe fact that the Tones 
returned as few women at the last election as 
they did in 1931, toe year the conference first 
met; and that while women have increased 
their representation in every other area oi 
society, in toe Conservative: Party Aghare 
not jff it were a private chib, tamghtjto 
matter. But it is an institution which seacs 
support from the public; Mid it must v. r ader 
if women voters, who make up 52 per cent of 
the electorate, like what thQ r see. 

While women used to vote Traymto 
greater numbers than men (mahily because 
they live longer, and toe 
oServative), toe “grader 
Shut on May 1. Labour made mroarfc 

particularly with young 

fo^UbourtotheTonesbyam^^29 

points, compared with a 15 -point. lead 

as men, Britain would have 
Labour governments. Tire 
therefore crucial to the J®* 3 ’^ 
Me sign from members attending yes 


terday that the party understands what 
needs to be done to bring women back. 
Quotas were derided as patronising: that 
may be so but, as Labour proved, a single 
ejection in which some women are 
“patronised" will have substantial long-term 
effects in female representation. The wom¬ 
en’s c on fere nc e wQl continue after toe party 
reforms, even though it serves to emphasise 
toear separation from the mainstream. No 
place will be reserved for a women's 
-representative on the party's management 
board where the real business will be done. 
Meanwhile, the rally member who dared to 
bring a child was hissed when toe pointed 
out how useful a crfiche would have been. 

More than two thirds of women work, and 
the proportion is rising fast Although 
women share many political concerns 
equally withmen, there are others that affect 
them d i sproportionately. Labour’s childcare 
plans, for instance, are a sensible, un- 
ideologkal and economically efficient policy 
that wiD go down particularly well with 
mothers. So why, in 18 years, did toe 
Conservatives do so tittle? Partly because of 
their ambivalence about working women; 
but also because women play such a small 

role in the counsels of their party. 

Even now, William Hague’s kitchen 
cabinet is entirely male. Just one woman, 
Gillian Shephard, sits in toe Shadow 
Fa hintf, and toe seems keen to bow out 
Action is needed if the Tories are to woo 
women back 


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

I Pennington Street London E! 9XN Telephone 0171-782 5000 


governments best level playing;[fields, not by 
dictating rates of pay. The rainisar says that 
Britain should follow the example erf other 
major Western European countries — and 
. dismisses their double-digit unemployment 
figures as irrelevant. Tony Blair, who 
lectures them constantly on the need for 
flexible labour markets; should not 

Thecomputer projections flooding into toe 
Low Pay CmninKgiffii cannot make comfort¬ 
ing reading. They show that a very low 
minimum wage of £3 to £3.70 an hour would 
price few people out of jobs, but equally 
would do little to Eft the low-paid out of 
poverty. Tb cease to depend era in-work 
^ benefits, most workers would have to work 
nearly 70 hours a week; and the main bene¬ 
ficiary would then be the Treasury, with the 
employee gaining as little as 3p in die pound. 
A higher minimum wage of £4.15 an hour, 
well below the £4.60 sought by trade unions, 
would greatly benefit those who keep their 
jobs, particularly the 800,000 very low-paid 
whose existing wages would nearly double. 
But according to a DTI estimate this year for 
the previous Government, if other workers 
maintained wage differentials, the cost 
would, be IB milli on jobs. If a minimum 
wage will not help the poor and could cost 
jobs, whom will it benefit? The answer, from 
the Institute of Fiscal Studies, is that most of 
the cash gain will goto middle-income fami¬ 
lies who are not affected by tiie benefits trap. 

So either a minimum wage does little 
harm, but littie good; or it risks harming the 
very poorest those with no job at all, while 
damaging the overall economy. The Govern¬ 
ment's decisicm to set a flat rate far the whole 
country and all economic sectors suggests 
that it ^would prefer a rate too low to make an 
impact on toe real world of work. The 
ancestors may not be so easily appeased. It 
was unwise to disturb their sleep. 


Candidate choice 
blights the Tories 

From Mr John dr Couny Ling 

Sir, The letters (November 25) of Mrs 
Georgians Hibberd and Mr Chris 
Metz from Winchester deserve the ai- 
rention of Lord Freeman, the recently 
appointed vice-chairman in charge of 
parliamentary candidates at Conser¬ 
vative Central Office. 

Mrs Hibberd says that “It is all 
very wdl for a right-wing party, in 
cahoots with local reactionaries, to 
find seats for their placemen.'* The 
problem is not confined to Winches¬ 
ter. Since Margaret Thatcher replaced 
Edward Heath as party leader in ear¬ 
ly 1976 there was a concerted move¬ 
ment at Central Office to find a differ¬ 
ent kind of candidate from hitherto. 

Business and the City were prefer¬ 
red to public service and the pro¬ 
fessions. A series of party vice-chair¬ 
men from 1976 until the elections of 
May 1997 sought to fiD the Conser¬ 
vative benches in Parliament with 
young men and women who were 
theoretically to live up to the some- 
what Idiosyncratic image of Margaret 
Thatcher. 

In Winchester in 1977, the candidate 
selected was an able businessman 
specialising in contacts in the Arab 
world. By 1992, however, his conduct 
was causing such concern that he was 
suspended from the House of Com¬ 
mons and disowned by the party. His 
successor, described by Mrs Hibberd 
not altogether inaccurately, as “an 
ambitious Scot in need of a safe seat", 
seemed to fit toe pattern of someone 
whose interests were arguably more 
commercial than pastoraL 

The consequence of this sadly mis¬ 
guided selection policy is that Conser¬ 
vative seats in the House of Commons 
and in the European. Parliament (but 
not fortunately in local government) 
are now all too frequently filled by 
hard-nosed individuals more interest¬ 
ed in private profit to an service to 
society. The near fatal crisis in the 
Conservative Party is not so much cue 
of policies but of personnel. 

Yours faithfully, 

JOHN de COURCY LING, 

Lamb House. 

Bladon. Woodstock, Oxfordshire. 
November 25. 


Winchester result 

From Mr P. J. V. Tuke 

Sir, When visiting the Winchester con¬ 
stituency last week (letters, November 
22 and 25). I found there was a warm 
appreciation for the way in which the 
Uberal Democrats are providing con¬ 
structive opposition in Parliament 
Many recognise that vigorous oppo¬ 
sition to that with which you disagree 
and fighting for what you fed strongly 
about is so modi more effective if you 
are prepared to support measures 
with which you broadly agree. It is 
heartening that the electorate has 
grown tired of adversaria] politics. 

Yours faithfully. 

PETER TUKE (Chairman, 

Halting Liberal Democrats), 

Mill Stream, East Hailing, 
Petersfidd, Hampshire. 

November 25. 

From Ms Suzanne Avery 

Sir, It is-ridiculous to claim (letter. 
November 25) that toe Conservative 
candidate's defeat in the Winchester 
by-dectiqn was due to toe party’s 
Euroscepticism: the Euro Conserva¬ 
tive candidate polled a mere 40 votes. 

Yours faithfully, 

SUZANNE AVERY. 

The Orchard, 

Milfbrd-an-Sea, Hampshire. 
November 25. 


Radio for children 

From Mr Stephen Keeler 

Sir, Last spring 1 submitted an un¬ 
solicited radio adaptation of Allan 
Ahl berg's The Better Brown Stories — 
a minor modem classic of children's 
literature. A fortnight ago I received a 
bittersweet letter from the radio 
drama prod utter to whom I submitted 
the scripts, saying that she “did 
thoroughly enjoy reading" them and 
that “they adapt very well indeed for 
radio. Our reader recommended the 
script to me wholeheartedly.” 

Then comes a paragraph, which 
must be as painful for toe producer as 
for me. beginning with the word “Un¬ 
happily". It tells me that my scripts 
will not be developed because “toe 
new Commissioning Editors have de¬ 
rided that it is no longer their wish in 
toe new schedule to broadcast for 
children on Radio 4”. 

Raymond Snoddy (“The BBC is let¬ 
ting the children down”. Media 
Tunes, November 21) rightly argues 
that it (Right not to be beyond toe cor¬ 
poration's creative talent to devise ra¬ 
dio programmes which would attract 
a respectable audience of diildren. 

The BBC, as a public service, has 
another duly, to nurture toe talents of 
writers of original radio drama for 
children and of adaptations from 
children’s literature. 

A BBC Radio 4 without any pro¬ 
gramming for children will be the 
poorer: without children’s drama it 
will effectively and swiftly kill off a 
whole sector of creative endeavour. 

Yours sncxsrdy. 

STEPHEN KEELER. 

121 Broad Lane, 

Hampton, Middlesex. 

November 23. 


Business fetters, page 31 


Red in tooth and daw runs the great foxhunting debate 


From Mr James McFarlane 

Sir. You report today that more than 
two thirds of the general public op¬ 
pose hunting with dogs (see also let¬ 
ter?, November 26). True or not. it is 
an irrelevance. 

The general public is not damaged 
by hunting: nobody is compelled to 
hum, nor are toe rights of those who. 
like me, don't hunt, infringed by those 
who do. It is hard to see what most 
people know of the m atter or how h is 
their business to intervene. 

We are on dangerous ground if we 
begin to think that the views of casual 
majorities should be decisive in the 
framing of criminal legislation. Opin¬ 
ion polls will show that a majority of 
the general public disapproves of a 
great many things, including the Con¬ 
servative Parly, homosexual acts, 
tripe and black pudding, smoking, 
immigration. Radio 3 and, very likely, 
the colour of my front door. 

If all these, and more, are to be 
made criminal because a majority 
doesn't like them, we shall all be m jail 
before long. 

Yours very truly. 

iames McFarlane. 

24 Broad Street, Ludlow. Shropshire. 
james@jimmimacdemon.co.uk 
November 27. 

From Mr Dan Norris, 

MPfor Wansdyke [Labour) 

Sir, The hunting debate is often paint¬ 
ed as pitting town against country, ur¬ 
ban dwellers don't understand coun¬ 
try ways, toe argument goes, and re¬ 
sistance to hunting is focused in towns 
and dries. As a representative of a 
semi-rural constituency in northeast 
Somerset this viewpoint has long in¬ 
trigued me. 

Over SO per cent of toe 700 letters 
I've received about hunting over the 
past months have been sent by constit¬ 
uents urging me to back Michael Fos¬ 
ter's Bill this Friday. Yet semi-rural • 
Wansdyke indudes parts of Bristol, as 
weD as the towns of Keynsham, Mid- 
somer Norton and Radstock; my con¬ 
stituents are divided roughly equally 
between “urban" and “rural" areas. 

Having analysed die sources of 
these letters 1 am interested to disco¬ 
ver that opposition to hunting with 
dogs is even greater in the rural parts 
of this constituency than in the towns. 
Those who portray opposition to hunt¬ 
ing as an invasion of the countryside 
by unsympathetic townies would do 
wdl to note that in Somerset at least, 
this argument, appears invalid. 

Yours faithfully. 

DAN NORRIS. 

House of Commons. 

November 25. 


Albanian ‘purge’ 

From Mr Mark Almond and 
Mr Beytullah Destani 

Sir, Your report (World in Brief, Nov¬ 
ember 20, later editions) that Al¬ 
banian diplomats had been refused 
asylum in this country by toe Foreign 
Office reflects official indifference to 
Albanian realities since the change of 
regime there in July. 

Unfortunately, news of the purge of 
toe Civil Service and judiciary as wdl 
as the Albanian diplomatic service by 
toe victorious former Communist Ffcr- 
ty. now renamed the Socialist Party, 
has not filtered out to the outside 
world. More than 3JXX) people have 
beat dismissed. 

What is still more shocking about 
tills purge is that its tentacles have 
drawn in widely respected and unpoli¬ 
tical scholars like Dr Nerim Basha, 
Director of the Albanian National 
Library, Dr Luan Malltezi, Director 
of the Albanian National Archives, 
and Dr Ferid Hudhri. Director of toe 


New housebuilding 

From Councillor Richard Appleton 

Sir, There is a gaping hole in the plan¬ 
ning system which contributes to toe 
pressure to use more countryside for 
building new houses (letters, Novem¬ 
ber 20). As a (relatively new) local 
councillor engaged in the review of 
our local plan, I am struck by a coun¬ 
cil’s inability to insist on a minimum 
density for new developments. 

If toe coundJ allocates a site for 
housing, suggesting that it would be 
suitable for 50 houses, a developer can 
propose a development of only 30 
houses. The council is powerless to 
prevent this (in sharp contrast to its 
powers to prevent developments of an 
excessive density compared to the sur¬ 
rounding area). Sooner or later, it will 
have to find another site to make up 
the shortfall. 

With two or three-bedroom houses 
bang the greatest housing need in the 
South East, and developers keenest an 


Loans for priests 

From Mrs Kathleen M. Johnson 

Sir, If. as reported on November 25. 
the Church of England is considering 
plans to repay student loans taken out 
by its newly ordained priests, perhaps 
they should think back a bit 
Twenty-six years ago, when my 
husband was accepted for training for 
toe Anglican priesthood, we were ad¬ 
vised by the diocesan-secretary to sell 
our house and be prepared for ail die 
proceeds to go towards the support of 
me and our baby during the three 
years of his training. This is exactly 
what happened and my husband was 
ordained utterly broke but with no 


From Mr Steven Parker 

Sir. Our farming cousins' unwilling¬ 
ness to accept townie intervention in 
the great hunting debate is matched 
only by their willingness to accept 
townie subvention via EU subsidies. 

Is it not time to put an end to this 
cruel and unnecessary pursuit erf my 
income? 

Yours faithfully. 

STEVEN PARKER. 

5 The Meadway, 

Blackheath, SE3. 

November 27. 

From the Chairman of the Union of 
Country Sports Workers 

Sir. Michael Foster's Bill threatens 
15.200 jobs to which there may prove 
to be no alternatives in toe country¬ 
side. This union, which represents 
hunting employees and gamekeepers, 
ghillies and others whose jobs are the 
next target for the advancing animal 
rights agenda, hopes that toe Com¬ 
mons will reject h. 

Anti-hunting campaigners glibly 
argue that recreational riding and 
dragh tinting will save toe jobs. The 
Masters of Draghounds Association 
disagrees. Hunts cannor unilaterally 
switch to draghunting. Only farmers 
can decide who has a good enough 
reason to ride across their land, and 
for most fanners, sport riding without 
pest control and other services from 
hunts is not attractive. Riding schools 
and other recreational riding busi¬ 
nesses are already in recession. 

We do not say that employment 
considerations should overrule ani¬ 
mal welfare, like two former chiefs of 
toe League Against Cruel Sports, we 
believe that wildlife such ds foxes win 
be worse off after a hunting ban, not 
better off, because less regulated pest- 
control methods will be used instead. 

It would be unforgivable for MPs to 
vote 15,000 jobs away in a mistaken 
gesture on animal welfare. Coming 
just days after toe Prime Minister 
went to Luxembourg to persuade 
other European governments to pro¬ 
tect jobs more zealously, it would be 
ironic, too. 

Yours sincerely, 

J. FRETWELL, 

Chairman. 

Union of Country Sports Workers, 
PO Box 43, Towcester, 
Northamptonshire NN12 7ZB. 
November 25. 

From Mr Geoff Greaves 

Sir, Mr Neil Moore (letter. November 
26) objects to those who disapprove of 
something imposing their views 
through legislation, in this case to stop 


Department of Art of the Albanian 
Academy of Arts, who have been dis¬ 
missed from their posts. 

Regrettably, neither Western em¬ 
bassies nor those human rights 
groups which were so prominent in 
criticising the anti-communist inter¬ 
regnum in Albania (1992-97) seem to 
have taken any notice of these deve¬ 
lopments. 

On November 28 it will be 85 years 
since Albania gained her indepen¬ 
dence from the Turks. It would be tra¬ 
gic if, after all the vicissitudes of the 
20th century, Albania had returned to 
toe grip of a parly whose leaders seem 
to have forgotten nothing and learned 
nothing from the darkest period of 
Albanian history. 

Yours faithfully, 

MARK ALMOND 
(Chairman), 

BEYTULLAH DESTANI, 

The British Helsinki 
Human Rights Croup, 

22 St Margaret's Road. Oxford. 
November 25. 


building larger detached homes, h is 
increasingly difficult for councils to 
make the oest use of sites already des¬ 
ignated, including those within the 
existing settlement boundary. 

Yours faithfully, 

RICHARD APPLETON. 

14 Star Post Road, Camberley, Surrey. 
appleton_richa rd&jpmorga n.com 
November 26. 

From Mrs Jennifer Galton-Fenzi 

Sir, In view of the impending country¬ 
wide housebuilding programme on 
greenfield sites, is it perhaps time we 
found new words for “to develop” and 
“developer"? The rather positive and 
desirable oonnotatiems of these ex¬ 
pressions seem increasingly at odds 
with toe reality. 

Yours faithfully. 

JENNIFER GALTON-FENZI. 

Post Cottage. 

Uttlehempston. Tobies, Devon. 
November 22. 


debts.We started his first job as curate 
on family income support. 

Now, as retirement looms nearer, 
the prospect of leaving the security of 
a tied house and paying rent or 
starting up a mongage is somewhat 
daunting. Would the Church Com¬ 
missioners like to repay our deficit? 

Yours faithfully, 

KATHLEEN M. JOHNSON, 
Chevening Rectory, Homedean Road, 
Chipstead, Sevenoaks, Kent. 
November 25. 


Letters for publication may 
be faxed to 0171-782 5046. 
e-mail to: Ietten@the-time8.co.uk 


hunting animals with hounds. “An 
arrogant, even totalitarian attitude." 
he says. 

I’ve no doubt that if toe moral 
majority had not had their democratic 
way in the past a cruel minority 
would have continued with cockfight- 
ing, bearbaiting or even sending 
children up chimneys. 

These reforms cost jobs and ended 
traditions too. Fortunately Parliament 
usually reflects public opinion — 
albeit sometimes, as in this case, 
belatedly. 

Yours faithfully, 

GEOFF GREAVES, 

16 Causewayhead, 

Penzance, Cornwall. 

November 26. 

From Mrs Anstice Baring 

Sir, I believe that Michael Foster, 
sponsor of the Wild Mammals (Hunt¬ 
ing wiih Dogs) Bill is a coarse fisher¬ 
man. I've never wanted to stop anyone 
fishing, but if his Bill becomes law, 
does he think his own sport will re¬ 
main immune? 

Yours truly, 

ANSTICE BARING, 

Ravenscoun House, 

20 Ravenscourt Park. Wb. 

November 26. 

From MrR. M. Stephenson 

Sir, Although many would agree with 
Lord Renton (letter, November 26) 
that toe actual cause of death in fox¬ 
hunting is rather more humane than 
other means, it is tiie chase prior to the 
fox's death which is the cruellest part 
of toe hunt. By toe time the hounds 
have caught the fox it may have had to 
endure an exhausting and wholly un¬ 
natural flight of many miles. 

If. as they daim, many foxhunters 
are primarily concerned with the 
quickest and least cruel form of cul¬ 
ling they could perhaps donate the 
money spent on keeping dogs, horses, 
etc. to research into an effective poison 
for foxes. 

1 am. Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

MATTHEW STEPHENSON, 

31 Leigham Hall. 

Lrigham Avenue, SW16. 
nLstephenson@nmsiac.uk 
November 26. 

From Mrs Nicola Sam- 

Six. Hie only reason people hunt faxes 
with dogs is for the fun of it 

Yours faithfully, 

NICOLA SCURR. 

5 Balniel Gate. SWL 
November 26. 


Long road home 

From Mr James Ingram 

Sir, Mr William Fisher (letter, Nov¬ 
ember 25) is mistaken when he says 
that the street number and postcode 
alone will teD a postman toe exact des¬ 
tination of a letter. 

1 have recently written some soft¬ 
ware to generate complete addresses 
from that information, and there are 
many postcodes which do not repre¬ 
sent just a single street — therefore a 
street number and a postcode may 
still refer to more than one property 
(albeit rarely). 

Yours, 

JAMES INGRAM, 

36c Deronda Road, SE24. 
james@one-ten.com 
November 25. 

From Mrs Poppet Codrington 

Sir, Bully for Mr William Fisher, who 
can put 19 W9 LAZ on his letters. 

Whilst converting this bam our 
address was The Caravan with three 
whippets, Down the muddy track past 
toe back drive of Lower Lyde Farm 
House. No problems with deliveries 
and probably faster than Cod. HR] 
3AQ. 

Yours faithfully, 

POPPET CODRINGTON. 

Lyde Bam, 

Lower Lyde. 

Hereford, Herefordshire HR13AQ. 
November 25. 


Noises off 

From Mr Thom Petty 

Sir, Judy FStton (letter, November 26) 
may like to know that we have just 
performed Arnold's Grand, Grand 
Overture, complete with the school's 
Senior Management Sweeper En¬ 
semble. 

During a rehearsal we were ap¬ 
proached by an irate school deaner 
demanding toe immediate return of 
his vacuum machine. 

Yours faithfully, 

THOM PETTY 
(Principal, organ section), 

King's School, 

Cumberland Street, 

Macclesfield, Cheshire. 

November 26. 

From Mr A. C. Lewin 

Sir, Judging from tiie level of audience 
participation I have noticed at recent 
concerts, perhaps one of our cele¬ 
brated composers could be encour¬ 
aged to write a Concerto for Ear, Nose 
and Throat. 

Yours faithfully, 

ALAN LEWIN. 

3 Bourne End Road. 

Northwood. Middlesex. 

November 26. 











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COURT CIRCULAR 


BUCKINGHAM PALACE 
November 27: Tbe Queen and The 
Duke of Edinburgh this morning 
visited Radley College and were 
received by Her Majesty* Lord- 
Lieutcnant of Oxfordshire {Mr Hugo 
Brunner), the Chairman of Radley 
College Council (Mr Michael 
Mdluish) and the Warden (Mr 
Richard Morgan). 

Her Mcycsfy opened Queen* Court 
science block and. with His Royal 
Highness, toured the College, at* 
tended a Service in the Chape! and 
joined the Warden, masters and boys 
Tar Lunch in HalL 

Her Majesty this afternoon visited 
Berinsfield. Oxfordshire, and was 
received by the Chairman of South 
Oxfordshire District Council [Coun¬ 
cillor Kenneth Hall). 

The Queen visited BerinsfiefaJ 
Health Centre, was received by the 
Senior Partner (Dr Timothy Hums) 
and nrtet exher doctors, health visitors, 
mothers and babies. 

Her Majesty later visited Mount 
Firm Community Education Centre. 
Berinslidd. was received by the 
Community Education Organiser 
(Mr Stephen Reader) and met stu¬ 
dents and tutors. 

The Queen afterwards visited 
Berinsfidd County Primary School 
and was received by the Chairman of 
Governors (Ms Sheila Craft) and the 
Headteacher (Mr Michael Taylor). 

Her Majesty toured the School, 
meeting Governors, teachers and 
children. 

Her Majesty later visited Abbey 
Sports Centre. BerinsSekJ. was re¬ 
ceived by the Manager (Ms Dinah 
Boulton) and watched a range of 
sports activities. 

Her Majesty subsequently visited 
St Mary and St Berin Church. 
Berinsfidd. and was received by tbe 
Vicar (the Reverend Andrew Town). 

In the Church Hall The Queen met 
representatives from the Church and 
the community of Berinsfidd. 

The Duke of Edinburgh this after¬ 
noon visited RM pic. Milton Park, 
near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. 

His Royal Highness afterwards 
visited Oxford Asymmetry. Milton 
Park. 

BUCKINGHAM PALACE 
November 27: The Princess Royal. 
President. Save the Childnoi Fund. 


Birthdays today 

Mr Kriss Akabusi. athlete. 39: Miss 
Fiona Armstrong, broadcaster. 41; Sir 
Gordon Beveridge, former Vice- 
Chancellor. Queen* University. Bel¬ 
fast. 64: LadV BoOamJey. 91; Vice- 
Admiral Sir David Brown, 70: Mr 
Geoffrey Clarke, artist and sculptor. 
73: Sir David Crootn-Johnson. former 
Lord Justice of Appeal. S3; Mr 
Alistair Darling. Chief Secretary Jo 
theTrcasury,44:MrF.C.H.duPreez. 
former rugby player. 62; Mr Terence 
Frisby. playwright, actor and pro¬ 
ducer. 65; Mr Ttany Garrett, director 


Memorial services 

Sir Heniy Peat 

Mr Michael Hat. Keeper of the Privy 
Purse. Treasurer to Tbe Queen and 
Receiver-General of the Duchy id 
Lancaster, was present at a service of 
thanksgiving for the life of Sir Henry 
Pear, chartered accountant and for¬ 
mer Auditor to The Queen* Privy 
Purse, held yesterday at St Andrew- 
by-ihc-Wardrobe, London EC4. The 
Rev John Paul officiated. Mr Robin 
Peal and Mr Richard Peat. sons, read 
the lessons. Mr John Philip gave an 
address. Among others present were 
Miss ctlltan Pear (daughter). Mrs 
Robin Peal (daughter-in-law), Mr 
Harry Pear. Miss Laura Peal, Mr and 
Mrs Christian cornier (grandchild¬ 
ren). sir Cerrard rear. Major sir 
Shane BlewlU. Sir John Grercnde. Sir 
Alan Hudcasle. Mr Colin Shaman 
(senior partner. KPMG) and Mrs 
Shannon. Mr Rupert Ham bra. Mr T A 
Tansley. Mr Peter Hum page. Mr 
Henry Sandfoni and Mr Jerome 
Freedman (representing CARAJ and 
marry other friends and colleagues 

Mr AJccMoir 

The High Sheriff of Durham Gty 
an ended a service of thanksgiving for 
the life of Mr Alec Andrew Muir, 
former Chief Constable of Durham, 
hdd yesterday in Durham Cathedral. 
Canon Dr Martin Kitchen officiated, 
assisted by Canon Simon Hoare. the 
Rev Michael HampeL Precentor, and 
the Rev John Scorer, Durham 
Constabulary* senior chaplain. 

Mr Tom Muir. son. and Mr Derek 
Harrison. President of the National 
Association of Retired Police Officers, 
read the lessons. Mr Hugh Beksnkin 
gave a reading and Mr Eddy 


this morning visited Her Majesty's 
Prism Holloway. Parkhurst Road, 
London N7. 

Her Royal Highness, Patron. Sense 
(the National Oeafblind and Rubella 
Association), afterwards visited a 
Sense shop at 57 Seven Sisters Road. 
Hofloway. London 747. 

The Princess Royal this afternoon 
attended the Starehe Endowment 
Fund (UK) Reception at the Goring 
Hotel. Grosvenor Gardens. London 
SWI. 

Her Royal Highness. Patron. Nat- 
ktnal Association of Victims Support 
Schemes, afterwords attended the 
Annual General Meeting at tbe 
Brewery. ChisweD Street. London 
ECI. 

CLARENCE HOUSE 
November 27: Members of the Ca¬ 
nadian Branch of the Common¬ 
wealth Parliamentary Association 
today had the honour of being 
received by Queen Elizabeth The 
Queen Mother. 

Her Majesty, accompanied by 
Princess Alexandra, the Hod Lady 
Ogilvy. was present this evening at a 
Renption given by the Franco-British 
Society at St James* Palace. 

Dame Frances CampbeQ-Preston. 
the Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox 
and Sir Alastair Aird were in 
attendance. 

KENSINGTON PALACE 
November Z7: Princess Alice, Duch¬ 
ess of Gloucester. Honorary Presi¬ 
dent. the Somme Association, this 
afternoon received Dr Ian Adamson 
(Chairman) and Mr David Campbell 


The DuchessraGloucester. Patron. 
National Asthma Campaign, at¬ 
tended a musical evening at Drapers' 
HalL London EG. 

THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 
November 27: Princess Alexandra. 
Patron, this afternoon opened the 
Arthur Wilson Day Centre of BEN- 
Motur and Allied Trades Benevolent 
Fund in Humber Road. Coventry, 
and was received by Her Majesty* 
Lord-Lieu tenant of West Midlands 
(Mr Robert Taylor). 

Her Royal Highness later opened 
Helen Ley Court for tbe Helen Ley 
Charitable Trust in Berieote Road. 
Leamington Spa. and was received by 
Her Majesty* Lord-Lieutenant of 
Warwickshire (Mr Martin Dunne). 


of campaigning and chief agent. 
Conservative Central Office, 45. the 
Right Rev M.G. Hare Duke, former 
Bishop of Sr Andrews. Dunkdd and 
Dunblane. 72: Lord Macdonald. 50; 
Mr Keith Miller, former cricketer, 78; 
General Sir David Mostyn. 69; Miss 
Dervta Murphy, author. 66: Sir Idris 
Pearce, chartered surveyor. 64; Sir 
Lewis Robertson, industrialist, 75: tbe 
Right Rev Patrick Rodger, framer 
Bishop of Oxford, 77; Lieutenant- 
General Sir Robert Ross, 58; Sir 
Saxon Tare, former chairman. Lon¬ 
don Futures and Options Exchange. 
66; Sir Raymond Whitney. MP. 67. 


Marchaiu, Deputy Chief Constable 
of Durham, gave an address. Among 
others present were: 

Mrs Alison Fisher (daughter). Mr 
Julian Farr (stepson). Mrs Katherine 
Odgera Cstepdaiighiei): Lord Barnard. 
Councillor Mr Joe Knox. Councillor 
Mr Morris NlchoUs. Mr Alan Miller, 
Mr David Blakey. Mr Alan Brawn. Mr 
Alec Rennie. Mr Robert Dobson. Mr 
Thomas Fanner, Mr Dennis Gariss. 
Mr Fred WUsan and many other 
friends and former colleagues. 

Mr Derek Salbcrg 
A service of thanksgiving for the life 
of Mr Derek Salbcrg. Director of the 
Alexandra Theatre. Bumkigham. 
1936-77. was held yesterday in 
Birmingham Cathedral The Provost 
of Birmingham officiated. 

Miss Fmella Fielding and Mr Wyn 
Calvin gave readings. Miss Rose¬ 
mary Leach and Mr Mike Smith. 
Chairman of Warwickshire County 
Cricket Club, paid tribute: Mr Peter 
Tod. Director of the Birmingham 
Hippodrome, gave an address. 

Margaret Carmichael 
(nee MacKeflar) 

A service of thanksgiving to cele¬ 
brate the life of Margaret Car¬ 
michael will be hdd on Tuesday, 
December 9.1997. at 1pm at St Cd- 
uxnba's Church of Scotland, (font 
Street. London SWI. All are wel¬ 
come. To assist with seating and 
catering please reply as soon as 
possible to Helen Hons ley. 
Hawkwood. Bury Road. London 
E4 7QL phone 0181529 6500 or fox 
0171247 4989. 


The following students were 
called to the Bax yesterday for 
this Michaelmas Term: 

Lincoln’s Inn 

M-K Gbumman. London N5: R J 
Niiabat, London E! 7; FHuq, Dhaka, 
estu G G Ponnam&alam, 


Calls to the Bar 


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SairalL 

Negara 

Selin- 

rr 


I'.'OM '.l tfTTing 



Azad. Kashmir. Pakistan; A Kee 
chuln Liang. London wijT H 
Chaudhry, Birmingham; A S Khan. 
Ewell. Surrey: o Sadat, Dhaka. 
Bangladesh; T Dubto. Birmingham: 
Lau Wal Hln, Hong Kong; LIm Ping. 
London nwr D a Hyae. London 
SW5; R K Young. London NW1;TA 
Scbinis, Limassol: G Tan Wei Mann. 

la: E chin Mi 
Jaysla; V J Suther¬ 
land, Alnwick. North ct L Borthwtck. 
Northampton: M Sand. H udders- 
MlddbcJ 


Ad&lksUasarny, Singapore; H Haron. 
Selangor. Malaysia; R Husaln- 
Novlatu. Rotherham; G Bonham- 



Heneghan, London W14: S J 
Good fellow. Loagbton. Essex Cl 
Dodd. Barraw-upon-TraotiTY Uik. 
none Kane C L de Alwis, London 
SEMsACJDontnce, Kingston upon 
Thames, Surrey; C o GaanOprag- 
asam. Malaysia; G W Hood. London 
N5: D M Crispin. London N3; S 
Terris. London E5; A Watson 


THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28 jW; 

n Forthcoming 



The Great Hall at Lincoln’s Inn 


khe& London NT4; c w j 
H ong Kone F Lin, Hong 

_ ± h 1 * 0 , Singapore; M F V 

Chew. Singapore^ C j 
London WIO: R B Bowl 
Derbyr T -D. A Dempster. 
Grlndlerord. Derbys: P S mils. 
Wealdsrone. Mlddlx: P M Tyler. 
MtunJiemec.' 


ong: Nona swee U Chow, Kuala 
_umpur; P G Philip. St Albans. 
Hens; Young At Peng. Kuala 
Lumpur Chan Keng Yean, Sefon- 
s Krtshnan. Selangor. 




New Zealand; 1 Bonaue. Colchester, 
Essex; A FVStagL London WI4; J B 
Rowley. Lyiham. Lancs; G S Garcha, 
wariey. W Midlands a S KaUraL 


Selangor. Malays 


Ree Them. 


Edgbaston. Birmingham; H Daro 
H J zaldan, Kuala Lumpur: B 
KorpaJ. Nottingham; BPS 
Gandham. Great Barr. Birming¬ 
ham; Q M Bln ns, Si George. Ber¬ 
muda; F i C Ohonbamu. Wembt 
Mlddlx; Tan Tee Kay. Penan 


aysla; J K Chappell. Xondou_ 

K Marlmuthu. Neeeri Sembllan. 
Malaysia: Tee ling Zhi, Singapore: I 
Shaflq, Lahore; c A Eratokrliou. 
Nicosia; E SymeonJdou. Nicosia; N 
Bahra, Leicester: S L Sherafai 
Mansoorl, London N16; J B 
Michaelson. London NWJ: i N 
Isbak. Johor. Malaysia; Low Keng 
Slone. Kuala Lumpur Dr D w 
Cottam. Grange over sands 
Cumbria: a Ts (rides. Limassol 
--C C Tsellngas. Nicosia 


N2U1M Cox. Nassau. 

Pannlrselvam, S Inga po___.. 

Bolton: Y Pish las.umassol; Ng Su 
Hlng. Perak. Malaysia. N 5 C De 
Silva, London SW7; M Leone Nu- 
Yen. Singapore; Loo Peh Fern. 


Selangor. Malaysia: A M Gram, » n-. *_ 

London N3: H Singh. Singapore: Ifin er Temflle 
Sim Sok Nee. Selangor. Malaysia: N * “ 


. _... dafoysuuN 
S Kasslm. Brunet N R Harrison. 
Brtghouse. Yorks; R D Thorpe. 
Bewdley. Worts; A Choo Pao Un. 
Kuala Lumpur S Kathriaraichl. 
London Nw; C J Marsh, Ashton- 
under-Lync D N Lewis, Liverpool; M 
Marlmuthu. Kuala Lumpur L K 
Blackband. Leeds; K B Anderson. 
Par bold. Lancs; D Ram acfaan bran, 
Selangor. Malaysia; E Chuane Twn 
Phey. Singapore: A J A C 
lead, Surrey; T S Tilley, 

SElK N A Barnett, South am pion; 
Razzaque. Khulna. Bangladesh; A 
Hariri. Pahang. Malaysia; A Joof. 
Banjul. Gambia; Chan Chee 
Choong. Selangor. Malaysia: C S M 
Leone, Selangor. Malaysia: Owen 
Heng Su Liu. Taipei. Taiwan: H 
Shamsuddln, Selangor. Malaysia: A 
AdcdelL Ken ley. surrey: Ko Hln 
Fang. Hong Kong; I M Anuar. SeF 
""^or. Malaysia: N H Dooher. Let¬ 
ter Yea Chlew Pin. Melaka. Mal¬ 
aysia; J R K Variey. Lower Tean. 
Staff*; S Hamid, Hayes. Mlddlx 
Una Hoo. Selangor. Malaysia: 
Gethlng. Northwlch, Cnes: « . 
williams. London N! 1: Y Slew. 
Kuala Lumpur; F A Sarwar 
Sheffield; J Purvis. Wolverhampton 
Chew Hew weam. Kuala Lumpur: 
Ftong Shin NL Kedah. Malaysia; s V 
Evans. Manchester. S E Dugal, 
CookbllL Warta: S Bhar. Pen 
Malaysia: Tam Cnee Jack. Selar«M., 
Malaysia; J G French. Harrogate; J 
Chen Urn. Sarawak. Mali 
Browning. Bristol: B K Su 
Malaysia; S P B Anderson. 

Z A Anuar. Koala Lumpon N 
Rickmansword). Herts; M Nathan, 
BramhaJI. Ches: w r s Prabhu. 

wickenham. Mlddlx; a J Keve. Lon¬ 
don W13: BSelvaraJan, Singapore; S 
ObaidullalL London NW7: MLWad- 
hams, KlnMthorpe, Northan 
Bany. London SEJ: Tan La 
Darul Ehsan. Malaysia; Ma Pin 
Selangor. Malaysia: P J M 
Ll&niludno; KMT Alam, 


Lecture ‘ 

The Bristol Soriefy 
Sir John Wills. Bl the President of 
the Bristol Society, the Lord- 
Lieu tenant of Bristol, the Lord 
Mayor of Bristol tbe High Sheriff 
of Bristol, the Vice-Chanceflor of 
the University of Bristol the 
Master of the Society of Merchant 
Venturers and die President of the 
Chamber of Commerce and Initia¬ 
tive were present at a lecture 
delivered to the Society by the 
High Commissioner of Canada. 
Mr Roy MacLaren, PC, at the 
Council House last oighL 
Mr St John Hartnell Chairman 
of the Society, presided and Jen¬ 
nifer Bryant-ftarson. JBP Asso¬ 
ciates Ltd. gave a vote of thanks. 
JBP Associates Ltd hosted a sapper 
afterwards. 


Hcckmondwikc Grammar 
School 

Former pupils of Heckniondwike 
Grammar School are invited to 
contact the school for details of the 
1998 Centenary Year celebrations. 
Tel 01924 402202, fox 01924 411345. 




M J MuDiolland. Harrow. MJddbc C 
M de weld-Nlcholas, London swi a 
R S Wells-Thoipe. London W6; S 
Most. Singapore: S L Peam, 
Faveisbam. Rent; C H Claypoole. 
Cod ford St Manr. Wills: Chua K L. 

Ingaponc J A Trew. London 5E17; 

IPO 'Driscoll, isleworih. Mlddlx; N 
J Burrows. Wetherby. W Yorks; J B 
Rushton. Coekermouth. Cumbria; S 
P j Taylor. London NW4: J 
Middleton. Clap bam. London: R E 
Colley. Kllbum. London; J s Balfour, 
France: D A Stapleton. London 
SW1S: s E Parry. Shrewsbury, A p 
Willetts, Sutton Coldriela: B A 
Molyneux. Hove. E Sussex; A L 
.e. Ches: J w Melvin. 


Hodge. Bromley, Kent; S J Klrsop, 
Amersham. Bucks; I D Sheridan. 
London Nio: G L w Haynes. 
Falmouth: a Petasis. Cyprus: H L 
Greatorex, Preston, Lancs; R H 
Namakula. Borehamwood. Hens; A 
Wright. Lichfield. Staffs; P J B Taylor, 
lichen or. w Sussex; a C Newton. 
Sidmouth, Devon: V M Sayers. St 
Saviour. Jersey; YE Port, London N3; 
L M lan Lob. Selangor. Malaysia: P 
D Squire. London WlZ: S Wal Chuen 
Ho. Hong Kong; R C Spinks, 
Cambridge; A Bhatla. Hounslow. 
Mlddlx; T L Robinson. Oxford: Z 
An gel ides, Oxford: A L Lewis. 
Uangynidr. Powys: O Neodeous. 
Cyprus; S C Randall. Woking. 
Surrey; 5 Lindsey. London SEI I; E B 
Stapleton. London W13: C P 
Saunders. London Nl: M T 
Gallagher. Chlseldon. Wilts: J F 
Hanfngton, London El 7; s l 
Bishop. Birmingham; M C Burke, 
London SEI; J c Grernm. Dfeiey. 
Ches; C M Smith. Redruth. 
Cornwall; H J Parry. London SWI5; 
A C Bennett Eghain. Surrey: A K 
Formant Bradley Green. Worct: D J 
Keating. London EC4: p Koul, North 
Ferrlby, E Yorks; S Ahmed. London 
5E15: S J wells. London NW4; It. 

Service dinners 

Tbe Rqyaj Dragoon Guards 
The annual regimental dinner of 
The Royal Dragoon Guards was 
hdd last night at the Cavalry and 
Guards Club, lieutenant General 
Sir Anthony MuUais. Cokroe) of 
the Regiment presided. 

Movement Control Officers’ 
dob 

Brigadier R.E. Ratazzl president, 
and members of die Movement 
Control Officers' Club hdd their 
annual dinner Iasi night at the 
Union Jade dob. Colonel S.H. 
Spadonan. chairman, presided. 

Dinners 

Damsh-UK Chamber 
of Commerce 

Lord CTtnioo-Davis. Minister for 
Trade, was the principal goest and 
speaker at the annual dinner of the 
Danish-UK Chamber of Com- 
merce held last night at the 
Dorchester hotel. Mr James G. 
Davis, chairman of the chamber, 
was the host, die Danish 
Ambassador and Mine Ipnsmarm 
Pouken were among the guests. 


tLwruuuu i a ^« JU4 w i ■ - — 

London E7;WG Robinson. Antigua.. 
West indies: E B Jones. Winchester, 
Hants; G S Mods. London 
K Janney. Tenterdcn, Kent: 

In Abseutix 

lee A Yen-Yen. Malaysia: llm Tek 


Gray’s Inn 


Leone; Wong Kwee Hot. Kuala 
Lumpur H Lfm Hslen Lln“ '~ v — 
Malaysia: Teh Hong Koou. 

«...—'a; S A Masoori. islar_ 

Karachi: TVM Machado. 

_rila, Sri Lanka; FNTSbetkh. 

Dhaka. Bangladesh; M M R Khan. 
Dhaka. Bangladesh: J Jbyaderan. 
Johor. Malaysia; N S Nabl. Dhaka. 
Bangladesh; F Anwar, Dhaka. 
Bangladesh: L Nahar. Dhaka, 
Banraadesh; N B Norriln. Kedah. 
Malaysia: E G Isaac. St Luda. West 
Indies: Choi Sbeung Kong. Hong 
Kong: J Ward-Prowse. frmr solicitor. 
Havant. Hants T L Jones, frmr soli¬ 
citor. Cardiff; J J MaJarTmnr solici¬ 
tor, Kingston. Surrey; G M W 
Gallagher. Irish barrister. Galway; S 


Additionally: 

Kan lam u than slo Thlruvlda 
Selvan. Kedah, Malaysia; M S 
Ralenaran, Singapore. R W M 
Sweeting. Nassau. Bahamas; R 
Kahar Bador, Kuala Lumpur. 


Rons Chah'Ka S 
Llm w eh 
Un. Mol 
Hang Ko 
Singapore. 


ong Kong; 
Stn C Mel 
Yeungs Kwong. 

Singh Parraeefi. 


Middle Temple 

F Ghosh, London NWZ; P GolganL 
London SW3; J W Nlcholls, London 
N4; J VIcror-MazeU. Palmers Green. 
Mlddlx: M D Arthur. London NW6;T 
E Dillcs. London EC4; C 3 Forman, 
Horsham. W Sussex: K W Chew, 
Singapore; S S S Tbapa. London W8: 
MRS Leong. Singapore; K Scott, 
Enllejd. Middlxflr K Osufsky; 
Bethesda, Maryland: N W Barber. 
Chariton. Hams: A C David. London 
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London NWS: M R Nash, Northoit 
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Hong Kong: SCI Wong. Hong 
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Caledonian Chub 
Lord Lang of Monkton was the 
principal guest at the St Andrews 
Day dinner held at the Caledonian 
Club last nighL Lord Ramsay, 
president, was in the chair, and the 
Right Rev Alexander McDonald. 
Moderator of the General Assem¬ 
bly of the Church of Scotland, was 
among those presenL 
Glaziers' Company 
Mr Geoffrey Bond. Master of the 
Glaziers’ Company, assisted by 
Mr George Cracknel], Upper War¬ 
den, and Mr Richard Stone, 
Renter Warden, presented the 
Glaziers' Award tor Community 
Service to Cadet Regimental Ser¬ 
geant-Major J. Cooper of 104 
Detachment Irish Guards of the 
South East London ACF at the 
installation dinner held last night 
at Glaziers’ HaH The Master. 
Professor Sir Michael Bond of 
Glasgow University. Past Master 
John Vartan and Sir Geoffrey 
Dear were the speakers. Among 
others present were: 

Tbe Miqmr of Southwark, the Bishop 
of Southwell. Lont Jomur of 
Bnurastone. QC. the Provost of 
Southwark. Lieutenant-General Sir 
Anthony Denlson-Smlih. tbe Upper 
Baffin of the weavers - company, the 
Master of the Scientific Instrument 
Makers’ Company and the Master of 


IHU Kenny. NetherWlnchendom 
J L mguson. Nassau: G K 
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Bahamas:. D M Berman. Hale. 
Cheshire: T A Mmijl London W11; 
S R J MtdcaL lahore; 5 N AbbasL 
Lfveipool; C K H Khaw. Kew, Sure 
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tow: S J F Alexander. London SW17 
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Cornwall; D M Bridgman, 
Brcraddysi. Devon; C M Harrison. 
Swindon. WffC R D Wald. London 
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Cole. York: N-.M Woodhouse. 
Portsmouth: RI Fak,Dtaon, Kent N 
D Croom. Londo&BWTte S 2 Kasim. 
Malmslo; A S A Cham. Malaysia: S A 
ivfll, Blshop-. oke, Haute; S Moses. 
London NW6; R [ Milas. London. 
SE3; E Wilks. BizmTngham; J a 
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James. Swansea: A Abdullah, 
Malaysia: E V Heptonsmil, YbriC A S 
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London Swl2; L M Taylor. 
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Pontaman. Rhydaman. Cantu J D M 
Cox. Bath; S Sandhu, Southall. 
Middle S Lam be. East Dsley. Berks 
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Stony Stratford. Buckinghamshire 
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Northamptonshire; S J Petnnger, 
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Mr A_G.Ars«>tt • 

nod Miss J-K- Barrage 
Tbe engagement is announced 
between Adam, am of Mr RTid Mi* 
M. Arscott, of KingswQod, Surrey, 
and Jo, orfly dau^ier of Mr and 
Mrs K. Burrage. of Ranmoi* 
CorrauaD. Surrey. 

.MrR.TJ.BcB 
ud M5ss AJri.de Happen . 

The engagement is aniKHmcrtl 
between Rupert, eider son of Mr 
and Mrs J ulian Bdl of Ow 
Windsor,-Berkshire, and Anmu 

daughter of Commodore and Mrs 
Jeremy de Hal pert of Froxfidd 
Greet). Hampshire- •' 

MrSAA. Bennie 
and Miss S.LS. CoffingS 
Tbe engagement is anncunoBd . 
between Simon, son of ibe late Mr 
Haniish Bennie and of Mrs Susan 
Andrew; of Wjnchelsea^ East Sus¬ 
sex, and Sally, younger daughter 
of Mr and Mrs Roger Coflings. of 
Thruxtcm, Herefordshire 
DrJJ*. Diver 

aral Dr S.C.B. Rtqratrkk ' 

.The engagement is armaoticed 
between Joe, only son of the fore 
Mr John Joseph Diver and Mrs 
Aline Simons. ofTburcroft, South 
Yorkshire, and Sally, youngest 
daughter of the late Mr Ivor 
Fitzpatrick and Mrs. Maureen ’ 
Fitzpatrick, of ftrftoksiriekis.. 
Glasgow. 

Mr M.G. Duncan 
and Miss GJVUL Anderson 
Tbe engagement is announced 
between Martin George, younger 
, son of Mrs BM. Duncan and the 
foie Dr B.M. Duncan, MD, of' 

- Omagh. CoTyrdne. and Georgitfo 
. Mary Russefl. defer daughter, of 
Lieutenant Coktod RJL Anderson. 
OBE, and -Mrs Anderson, of. 
iimington House, Somerset 
-Mr JA.G. EUkhoik 
and MOr M.P.G J. Lepdktier 
The engagement is announced . 
between Julian, sou of the Rev and . 
Mrs Nigd ELbounre,ofOddR«ie, - 
Cheshire, and Mathhde, daughter 
of M and Mme Octave 
LepeUetier. of Careritan,. Nor¬ 
mandy. Tbe marriage wiD take 
place next September m'Carentan- 
Mr J-A. Fawcett 
and Miss A. EL. Rhodes 
The engagement is announced 
between James, younger son of Mr 
and Mis M.H. Fawcen, of Chis¬ 
wick, London, and Anna, only 
daughter of Commander MJrf.' 
Rhodes, OBEL. RN. and Mrs MJ-L 
Rhodes, of Having Mand. - 
MrPJ.Gaflagfacr 
' and Dr P JL Veale 
Tbe engagement is announced ' 

. between Paul an^r son of.Mr and 
Mrs J. GaUagfaer. of Bushey, 
Hertfordshire, and PMippa. 
daughter of Mr and Mis H Veale. 
of Qxdtenham. Glo u cestershire: • 


Morelia. St Satdoor. Jersey. _ _ 
Chan. Hone Kong: M T Mayers. 
Kingstown. 5t Vincent; J S H Gob. 
Selangor, Malaysia; C B Pratt, 
Nassau: R C-L TRn. Malaysia; A t 
Hirst. Sllsden. W Yorks: EYD Wong. 
Hdrv Xrmp- C A Ctenre. Nmmji - --- 


QwLaundciwy Co mp any. . 

Forum UK v 

Dr Rosalind Miles was the prin¬ 
cipal speaker at Forum ' UK’s 
annual dinner hdd hut night at 
Cforidge'S. Bareness Denton of 
Wakefield, founder president, and 
Ms Geraldine Sharpe-Newton, 
chairman, also spoke. 

Insolvaicy Lawyers’ Association ' 
The President of the Insolvency 
Lawyers' Association. Mr Graeme. 
Jump, washostatiheAssodatkn's 
Annual Dinner hdd last night at 
the Victoria & Albert Museum. 

1 Professor David Milman delivered 
an address entitled “A Study of the 
Operation of Transactional Avoid¬ 
ance Mechanisms in Corporate In¬ 
solvency Practice". Mr Bany 
Cryer entertained guests after din¬ 
ner. Mr Brendan Guilfoyle, Mr 
David Sapte, Mr Phillip Syca¬ 
more, Mr Desmond Flynn and Ms 
Rebecca Parry were among the 
guests. 

Sternberg Centre far Judaism . 
The Apostolic Nunria Archbishop 
Pablo Puente, was the guest of 
honour at a dinner hdd list night 
at the Ste rn ber g Centre for Juda¬ 
ism. Sheikh Dr 2aki' Badawi 
spoke. 


:■Receptions 

Franm-Britisfa Society 
Queen Etiabeth The Queen Mother, 
~&ccompanfedby Ptiftress'Alexandra/ 
- attended » reception at St 'Janies* ‘ 
Palace yesterday to mark. h» di-. 
-amend axujnersuy. l93M991 ti «s, 
'Patron ttitbtrFbuKb-Britidi Society, 
She was. received by . Sir Jbim 
■« FtetweU, eha bma a. and Lady 
ftelMO. and Mr William BeaumonL 
vfcechairnian- The French-Ambas- 
sador. tbe PresWem. pf .the Assoa- 
andaftanceGrande Bretagne, Paris.. 
die FranooSoattish Society and other 
• members of Franco-Briosh groups 
were among those present 

Saadfiard St Martha Tknrt 
Lord Rees-Mogg presented the 
Sandfoni St Martin Trust Awards 
for' outstanding religious pro¬ 
grammes on tdeviskto in the past 
two years at a reception and 
luncheon bdd yesterday at Lam¬ 
beth Palaoe. by kind permission of 
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the 
Most Rev and Right Hon George 
Leon ard Carey. Gerard MansdL 
CUE, received the guests. The 
Chairman of Judges was David 
Gfencross; CBE. 

Luncheon 

New spap er Society 
The Secretary of State for the Home: 
Department was the guest of honour 
or a luncheon of the Newspaper 
Society, at.Bkxxasbury House yes¬ 
terday. Mr Chris Oakley, president of 
the society, was tbe hoa. 


Mr P-MJ- Gibb 
and Miss B»V. Puddcn 
The engagement & announced 
between Piers, younger son « Mr 
and Mrs Robert Gil*, of 
Wadhurst, Sussex, and Brray. 
only daughter of Mr fonaftan 
Fodden. of Marbran. tofcaiirt 
and Mis Rosanne Pudden. of 
Shrewdy, Warwickshire. 

Mr J-RX Gadnris* 

and Miss SJVLABan 

The engagement is announced 
between Richard, son of Mr and 
Mrs. G.R.1- Gilchrist, of 
Whitecraigs, Glasgow, and Subui, 
cfafef dangfofr*" of Dr ®hj Mrs J.G. 
Allan, (rf Knidee, Glasgow. 

Mr M.H. Grant 
- and Serioribt M- del Mar 
DiatRodriguez 

The engagement is announced 
between Marcus, ddesi son of Dr 
and Mis Roderick Gram, of 
Akferholt Park, Fordingbridge. 
Hamp shire, and Maria del Mar, 
youngest daughter of Senor and 
Sdtara Francisco Diaz-Rodriguez. 
of Almeria,An<foluda. Spain. 

Mr H.T. Martin 
and Miss A^LPryde 
The engagement is announced 
between Roddy, son rf Mr and 
Mrs Graham D. Martin, of 
Rictonansworth. Hertfordshire.' 
and Anne, younger daughter of 
Mr and Mis Neil Piyde. of New 
Territories, Hang Kong. 

Mr MA. Newman 
and Miss J JL Vanghaa 
The engagement is announced 
between Mark, son of Mr Frank 
Newman and the late Mrs Arm 
Newman, of Bromley. Kent and 
Julia (Kate), daughter of the late 
Mr Ralph Vaughan and rf Mrs 
Ralph Vaughan, of Crow borough. 
EastSussex. 

MrCJ. Perry 
and Miss FXL Sword 
'The engagement is announced 
between Charles, elder son of Mr 
and Mrs James Perry, of Highfieid 
Stile. Braintree, Essex, and Favefi, 
daughter of . Mr and Mis John 
Sword, ofHeythrop. Oxfordshire. 

Marriage 

Sir Douglas Falconer 
and Mrs G Drew 
Tbe marriage took place on Sat¬ 
urday. November 22. 1997. in the 
Temple Church. London, of Sir 
Douglas Falconer and Mrs Con¬ 
stance Drew-. The Master of the 
Temple, Canon Robinson, 
officiated. ’ 

The bride was given in marriage 
by her brother. Mr Brian Hutchin¬ 
son, CMG.-Mr lan Falconer was 
best man. 

- A reception and luncheon was 
held in the Middle Temple. 


Anniversaries 

BIRTHS: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 
composer, Florence. 1632: William 
' Blake, poettfngraver and painter, 

' London; :, I7!!ffl-:Winiam Ftoude. 
naval architect, Dlartington, 
Devon, X8V& Ariton Rubinstein, 
pianist and composer. Moldavia. 
1829: Aleksandr Blok. poet. St 
Petersburg, 1880; Nancy Milford, 
novelist and biographer. London. 
1904. 

DEATHS: Gian Bernini, sculptor, 
Rome; 1680: Enrico Fermi, physi¬ 
cal Nbbei laureate 1938. Chicago. 
1954: Richard Wrighl novelist, 
Paris, I960; Wtlhdmma. Queen of 
The Netherlands 1890-1948, Het 
Loo. 1962: Rosalind Russell ac¬ 
tress; Beverly Htfis. California, 
1976. 

The Royal Society was founded in 
London 1G6&. 

Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin 
bry Arthur Griffith. 1905. 

Tbe firarJPobaruid cameras went on 
sale In Boston. Massachusetts. 
1948,.;. 

Award 

The Swedish Ambassador 
. The Swedish Ambassador, on 
behalf of The King of Sweden, has 
awarded Sir- Sigmund Sternberg 
with a Commander of the Royal 
-Order of .the Polar Star in recog¬ 
nition of ins promotion of Swedish 
interests.: 


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BATES - Ob November 14th at 
The Portland Hospital, to 
Andes (nde Hotakovle) and 
David, a danghtaz. Aaliyah 
Emily, • staler for Raiasha. 
CHAMBERLAIN . Ob 2dm 
November 1997. to Utan 
and Adrian, a daughter, 
Sarah F iances. 

COLLETT - On November 13th, 
to Emily Code MteQnyn- 
Oakford) and John, a 
b eau t i f u l daughter, TsUtbs 
Jane, a baby slater for 
u »,iw i nm mb George. 

FI ELD HO USE - On Tuesday 
November 25th at the Royal 
Sussex County Hospital, to 
tekola Cb4s Haro) and Hark. 

a dauBhrar, Bethany Datoy, a 

■lee, for a «*»H fl »»te d Entry 
Tuesday. 

FORD - On 20th November 
1997, to Picky Cafe NtadO 
and Hugo, a daughter, 
Elbabuh Gillian. 

HOLT - On 26th November, to 
Anna (Cany) and Sbaoxt, a 
daughter; Matilda. 
HUBBARP - Oa 27th 
November; to Stetaid and 
Cbue (afe BuH^ a daugnex 
Aaaa Clara, a sister for 


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Duntroon. 1954-57, died on ■: 
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an Carapbdl won two DSQs in 
the first six momhs of 1941: the 
first at Bardia during.WaveH'S' 
Western Desert offensive against 
the Italians, the second for the success¬ 
ful defence of Rethymon. airfield on 
Crete against the overwhelming Ger¬ 
man parachute in vasion erf the island, 
which ended in the surrender of his . 
mixed Australian and Cretan force; 
owing to the order for the evacuation of 
the island never reaching him. He and 
his Australian men spent foe next four 
years as prisoners of war in Germany, 
ft was lime comfort to than that Hitler 
never authorised another major para¬ 
chute descent after The losses sustained 
on Crete. ' 

At Bartfia in January, .Campbell was 
the Brigade Major of 16th Australian 
lnfontry Brieade in the 6fe-Australian 
Division, .when it was ordered to 
bread] the stamg perimeter defences of 
the fortress 'after' foe Italian defeat at 
the battle of Sidi Barrani a few weeks 
earlier. He war not only foe principal 
planner of foe assault but personally 
carried out .the vital ni^ht patrols 
across foe desert to mark, under foe. 
very noses of foe Italians, foe assault . 
troops’ start-tine and axis of advance to 
foe point selected for breaching. His 
first DSO came as a reward far hfrpart 
in foe fall erf foe fortress and the 
capture of 40,000 Italian prisoners. 

Three weeks later his brigade suc¬ 
cessfully repeated foe operation at foe 
much more foixmd&ble fortress of 
Tobruk. Thai 7 continuing foe advance 
westwards, 6fo Australian - Division ■- 
took Benhazi while 7th Armoured 
Division cut foe coast road.soofo of foe 
city and put foe rest of foe Italian 10th 
Army “in thebag’’atthedetirive battle. 
of Beda Rrann. Na sooner was the ' 
Cyrenaican campaign won than 6th 
Australian Divis'cm wasonitsAVay to 
Greece and Campbdl was promoted to - 
command 2nd/1st Australian Infantry 
> Battalion in lfih Brigade. 

After the British withdrawal from 
the Aliakraon Line in Greece aid the - 
evacuation to Crete, Campbell was 



have done more without useless loss of 
Australian and Cretan life News of his 
second DSO reached him in a German 
prison esunp. arid foe Grade Govern¬ 
ment appointed him a Knight Com¬ 
mander of foe Royal Greek Order of 
foe Phoenix. A plaza, an avenue and a 
in Rethymon are named after 


British and Greek (Cretan) troops 
boltfing the Rethymon airfield. He had 
about three weeks to establish a dose 
rapport with, his- three Cretan battal¬ 
ions, the local Cretan village mayors 
and the people of foe Rethymon 
district, and to organise its defences. 

The main' German parachute assault 
on Crete started early on May 20, but 
the landings at Rethymon did not 
begin until the late afternoon. These 
were by 1,600 paratroopers of Colonel 
Sturm's para regiment many of whom 
were shot on foeir way down. Colonel 
Storm and his staff were captured on 


given command ctf foe Australian,: landing, and during foe next ten days' 


fighting, Campbell's men took 529 
para troop prisoners and killed another 
900 of Sturm's assault force. 

Things had not gone so well in the 
west where the loss of Maiaroe airfield 
enabled the Germans to land major 
reinforcements. The British evacuation 
was ordered on May 27, but by then 
Campbell’s force had been cut off and 
orders to withdraw to the south coast 
did not reach him. 

At 8.15am on May 30, Campbell 
walked down onto foe airfield with a 
white towel on a stick and surrendered 
his force as foe Geriman tanks ap¬ 
proached from the west. No one could 


Ian Ross Campbell was the younger 
son. of a Sydney barrister. He was 
educated at Scots Cbflege; Sydney, and 
foe Royal Military CoUege. Duniroon. 
where he won foe Sword of Honour, 
which is now carried by his grandson. 

CoDsmsskned in 1923, he saw 
service in India with Royal Scots 
Fusiliers al Slaikot ami on the North 
West Frontier, includin g the Khyber 
Pass. Returning ra Australia in 1927, he 
spent seven yean with the Sydney 
University Regiment and was appoint¬ 
ed honorary ADC to the Governor of 
New South Wales. In 1936, be came to 
England for the first time, where he 
went to the Staff College, Camber ley. 
At the outbreak of war. be was 
appointed Brigade Major of 16th 
.Australian Brigade. 

When he returned toAustradia after 
the war, his four years in prison camps 
affected him neither professionally nor 
personally. He was.given a series of 
key military appointments: deputy 
adjutant general, largely responsible 
for demobilisation of wartime units 
and reorganisation of the regular farce; 
director of foe Army training compo¬ 
nent in Japan and Korea during foe 
Korean Wax: commandant of the 
Australian Staff College; and finally 
Commandant of the Royal Military 
College. Duntroon. In 1954 he was 
appointed CBE. 

Retiring from die Army in 1957. he 
spent ten years in industry. His 
experience in prison camps had made 
him a great admirer of the Red Cross, 
and so fix 1 the following decade he 
wariced on a voluntary basis as 
chairman of the New South Wales 
division of the Red Cross. And in 1994 
the Returned Services League of Aus¬ 
tralia made him honorary vice-chair¬ 
man for life. He remained the devoted 
servant of tile Queen, Australia and foe 
Australian Army. 

In 1927 he married Patience Allison 
Russell, who died in 1961. They had one 
daughter. His second marriage was 
dissolved after two years, and in 1967 
he married Irene Cardamaris, who 
died in 1996. 


JIM MILLER 


Jim MlSer, industrialist, 
salmon fisherman and 
campaigner against 
European integration. 

died on November 12 
aged 73. He was born on 
Jane 19,1924. 

AS WELL as being a chartered 
engineer and a successful 
company executive, Jim Mil¬ 
ler was involved in many 
business associations, and 
spent much of his time warn¬ 
ing colleagues that their inter¬ 
ests would not be served fay 
submitting to plans for Euro¬ 
pean harmonisation. He was 
also a notable fisherman and 
conservationist, who did 
much to maintain and im¬ 
prove the quality of salmon 
fishing in the Borders. 

James Derrick Miller was 
bom into a mining family in 
South Yorkshire. After gram¬ 
mar school he won a state 
scholarship to Clare College. 
Cambridge, in 1942 to read 
natural sciences. However, he 
left Cambridge after a year 
and volunteered for the Navy, 
and served out the war doing 
research at the Royal Naval 
Signals School. 

In 1945, with vast numbers 
of people wishing to go back 
up to Cambridge, he chose 
instead to go to Sheffield 
University, where he took a 
degree in mechanical engi¬ 
neering. After some place¬ 
ments as a graduate trainee, 
he moved south to the Mid¬ 
lands to join AJC which was 
then the leading firm of man¬ 
agement consultants in the 
area. He soon established a 
reputation for incisive and 
logical thinking, backed by 
determined implementation. 

In 1963 a consultancy as¬ 
signment at foe Harris & 
Sheldon Group, a Midlands 
conglomerate, led to his being 
offered the job of chief execu¬ 
tive at the age of 39. He subse¬ 
quently became executive 
chairman in 1965, remaining 
in that job until his death. In 
1981 he was in the vanguard of 
foe management buyout 
movement when he and his 
codirectors converted Harris 



& Sheldon to a private 
company. 

Miller was also chairman of 
two other companies, Antler 
pic until 1989, and Wassail pic. 
However, since he was an en¬ 
thusiastic fisherman, the com¬ 
pany that gave him most fun 
was Hardy'S, the leading fish¬ 
ing-tackle manufacturer, 
which he bought in 1967, when 
the business was experiencing 
difficulties. He managed to 
improve Hardy'S position, 
and today it is flourishing 
again. The salmon fishing 
which was acquired as an ad¬ 
junct of foe company — inclu¬ 
ding the famous Junction Fool 
beat on the Tweed — gave 
it pleasure to him, his 
and many guests, who 
included figures from the 
sporting and business worlds 
such as Jim Slater. Ian 
Botham and Jack Chariton. 

As a passionate believer in 
conservation. Miller was 
among the leaders of the 
movement to buy out salmon 
fishing netsmen in the estuar¬ 
ies of the Tay and the Tweed, 
and he was perhaps the first to 
encourage the return of out-of¬ 
condition autumn fish to the 
rivers to conserve stocks — a 
practice that is becoming 
widespread. 


He was an instinctive be¬ 
liever in free markets, and a 
supporter from the first of foe 
Institute of Economic Affairs. 
The almost perfect coincidence 
of names of his company Har¬ 
ris & Sheldon with Ralph Har¬ 
ris and Arthur Seldon was a 
longstanding joke between 
them. 

Miller was an active sup¬ 
porter of the Conservative 
Party, although from the 1960s 
he was a constant and vocifer¬ 
ous opponent of British mem¬ 
bership of the Common Mar¬ 
ket and then of foe European 
Union. He spoke often and 
vehemently against what he 
saw as the progressive erosion 
of Parliament's power to gov¬ 
ern, and was a private sponsor 
of many of the different 
groups that have campaigned 
against it, including foe Euro¬ 
pean Research Group, the 
Bruges Group and foe Euro¬ 
pean Foundation. In his last 
days he was pleased that the 
new Conservative leader — 
who had attended foe same 
school in Yorkshire — had 
taken a firmer stand against 
total monetary integration. 

He married Florence Elliott 
in 1947. She survives him, 
along with their daughter and 
two sons. 


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writer and polMcal 
thinker, died in Geneva ■ 
on November 8. aged 105. 
He was bom in Isfahan 
on January 1% 1892. 

THOUGH he dismissed foe 
claim, Mdhanunad-Ali Jaxnak 
zadeh was often described as 
He “father of modern Persian 
fiction”. He certainly made 
a success of the genre, 
and his style was widely emu¬ 
lated. He addressed himself to 
foe daily problems of the 
urban poor and foe peasantry, 
and he avoided foe .ure of 
complex phrases . borrowed 
from five Azerbaijani'^Turkish' 
of the Caucasus,-prevalent 
among foe aristocratic writers , 
of his time, when : .snnple 
Persian equivalents- ware 
available. : '• V. -- V 

He was a pronrineat activist 
in foe parliamentary reform, 
movement of the-' first' two 
decades of tins, pentary, de¬ 
spite his youth. This was 
largely due to foe execution of 
his father by. the penultimate. 
Russian-backed Kajar. mon¬ 
arch. Shah^Mohannnad-Ali, 
in foe civil war ctf 1905-11. 


- .Almost all bis adult-life he 
spenfinEurqpe. ’ 

Janiajzadeh's father was foe 
: influential Shra deric of Isfa- 
^ han. Jantel-edI>iii - Hama- 1 
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agitated for a liberal constitu¬ 
tion. In-1910 Jamahadeh went 
to Paris, and four years later 
he bbtained a degree In law 
ftomrfoe University of Dijon 
and married his first wife. 
Josephine, a Swiss subject. In 
19K, while several regions of 
-• neulrifiljtowereocai^^ 
Russia. Britain and Ottoman 
Turkey, Jamalzadeh returned 
to The western dty trf Kerman- 
shah and formed a small 
army of Kurds to fight the 
allies, but he was soon forced 
-to abandon the venture and 
went to Berlin at foe start of 
his permanent settlement in 
• Europe. 

hi the German isqatal he 
fell under the influence of such 
Iranian intellectuals as Has- 
. san Taghiradeh. a future lead- 
er of the Soiiste in Tehran ; 
under- the last Shah, imd 
concluded that one of . the ' 
.'Yeasbns for the widespread 
illiteracy of his fellow country^ 



men was foe preference of 
their educated elite to write 
only far one another, “whereas 
in foe civilised countries, even. 
great thinkers try to write their 
works in as staple a language 
as possible”. 

The result was a series 
of innovative short stories 
published by Taghizadeh in 
his emigre magazine Kaveh, 
which eventually formed 
Jamalzadeh 1 !! first book, YekJd 
Bood , Yekld Nabood fOne 
Person Was, One Person. Was 
Nor), the title being foe 
traditional opening of Persian 


fairytales. While same critics 
in Iran denounced the conver¬ 
sational style as a degradation 
of literary tradition, others 
hailed it as foe beginning of a 
new era. Jamalzadeh was now 
launched on his prolific career 
as a writer of short stories, 
novels, political tracts and 
histories. 

For many years, Jamal¬ 
zadeh earned his firing as a 
teacher of Persian literature to 
foreign students, and as Iran's 
representative to foe Interna¬ 
tional Labour Organisation in 
Geneva. He visited Tehran 
regularly, but never seriously 
considered a political career 
there. 

A blemish on his last decade 
was remarks in support of the 
Islamic revolution of 1979. 
which saddened many of his 
liberal admirers; but he re¬ 
mained otherwise in charge of 
his mind to the last A few 
months ago in his Geneva 
nursing home, be complained 
to a visitor that death had kept 
turn waiting mo long. “Why 
am I not dying?” he asked. 
“All have gone and I'm still 
here. I no longer understand 
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Shake Keane, jazz 

trumpeter and poet, died 
in Bergen. Norway, on 

November 10 aged 70. He 
was bora in St Vincent, 
West ladies, on - 
May 30,1927. 

NOT only was Shake Keane 
the most brilliant trumpeter 
and flugdhora player of his 
generation of London-based 
West Indian musicians, he 
was also a prizewinning poet 
and an educator. For British 
jazz his importance began 
with his associations in the 
early 1960s with the alto 
saxophonist Joe Harriott, with 
whom he pioneered a highly 
original and idiosyncratic 
brand of free improvisation, 
and with the pianist Michael 
Garrick, for whom Keane was 
an enthusiastic collaborator 
in the “Poetry and Jazz” 
movement 

By foe mid 1960s Keane's 
formidable abilities as a trum¬ 
peter competent in many 
styles had taken him into the 
world of commercial record¬ 
ing. He cut three albums of 
pop songs and ballads, accom¬ 
panied by Ivor Raymonde’s 
orchestra and foe Keating 
Sound, before joining Kurt 
Edefixagen’S German Radio 
Orchestra. Among his final 
jazz recordings were the LPs 
Sax No End and Out of the 
Folk Bag, ait in Cologne by 
the Kenny Clarke/Francy Bo¬ 
land Band in 1967. Here 
Keane found himself along¬ 
side the American expatriates 
Beamy Bailey and I drees 
Sulieman aim the Scottish 
trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar. 
probably the most accom¬ 
plished trumpet section in jazz 
at the time, in what was 
universally regarded as Eur¬ 
ope’s leading trig band. 

There were early signs 
that Ellsworth McGranahan 
Keane, one of seven children, 
would become a musician, but 



he came to jazz relatively late. 
He had music lessons from his 
father, playing in public from 
a young age and leading his 
first hand soon after his 
father^ death in 1940, but the 
music he grew up playing was 
foe West Indian popular 
music erf the day. He was 
equally involved in the study 
of literature, acquiring his 
nickname as a corruption of 
“Shakespeare" on account of 
his abilities as a poet He 
worked as a teacher before 
coming to London in 1952, 
where he read English at Lon¬ 
don University. 

As a student he financed 
himself by playing foe trum¬ 
pet Mambas and catypsos, he 
told a friend, were preferable 


to manual labour, despite the 
frilly shirts and maracas. 
Keane was. however, so out¬ 
standing a musician that he 
was soon in demand in a 
variety of styles, and he began 
recording under his own 
name as early as 1954, when 
he cut his first disc, Trumpet 
Highlije. 

The drummer there was the 
mercurial Phil Seamen, who 
shared both Keane's preco¬ 
cious talents as an instrumen¬ 
talist and a self-destructive 
compulsion. Seaman’s life was 
destroyed by drugs: Keane’s 
was threatened by an inner 
restlessness that was apparent 
throughout his life. 

Although Keane worked 
with several musicians whose 


main interest was jazz, he met 
most of them playing other 
styles of music—from Ghana¬ 
ian highlife and Nigerian 
drumming to his native calyp- 
sos — and it took a meeting 
with the bassist Coleridge 
Goode to introduce Keane to 
jazz. Through Goode he joined 
Joe Harriott’s band, although 
coincidentally he had already 
interviewed Harriott for foe 
BBC World Service's Caribbe¬ 
an Voices programme, on 
which he worked by virtue of 
his reputation as a poet. 

Harriott’s Quintet offered 
Keane a musical challenge 
equal to his abilities and 
formidable intelligence, white 
in Michael Garrick's group he 
briefly found the ideal union 
of poetry and music. He 
played in both bands until 
1965, when he moved to 
Germany. 

In 1972 he returned to St 
Vincent and, having been one 
of his islands principal cul¬ 
tural exports, he was given a 
post in the Department ctf 
Culture. Neither this nor a 
subsequent return to teaching 
lasted long, although he pro¬ 
duced his best-known poetry 
during the late 1970s. In I9S0 
he moved to the United States, 
settling in Brooklyn, where he 
worked inconspicuously in the 
local West Indian community. 
For a decade he barely 
touched flugelhom. until he 
returned successfully to play¬ 
ing in 1989 in the Caribbean 
and in Britain. 

He played veiy little after 
that, occasionally dusting off 
his horns for an overseas trip, 
especially to Norway, where 
his friend Erik Bye encour¬ 
aged him m work from time to 
time. He was on just such a 
visit, to appear at a fund¬ 
raising event for cancer relief, 
when his own undiagnosed 
cancer finally surfaced. 

Shake Keane is survived by 
three sons. 


NO CRITICISM OF ART ON THIS DAY 


NEW NAZI DECREE 
“STRENGTH THROUGH JOY” 

FKOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT 

BERLIN, Nov. 27 

Dr. Goebbek. the Propaganda Minister, 
announced at the Chamber of Culture that he 
tod issued instructions forbidding fnxn to-day 
cntidsm of works erf art literature, musk, and 
drama. Tbe veto extends also to State stage. 
efrnema and concert performances and the 
artists engaged. The place of criticism is to be 
taken by objective analysis and description, li 
is understood that the cocrunentainrwtil not be 
permitted to say that a work erf an or a 
perfor ma nce is either good or bad. 

With this order Dr. Goebbels storms the Iasi 
refuge of free opinion in Germany. It has, 
however, been a narrow one for some time 
nasi, critics having learned that they are not 
free to write on works of art without irinente 
to the political, cultural, and racia] values of 
- Natmal-Sorialism. 

The Chamber of Culture held its sic 
jointly with representatives of the 
thrtw^jt^ organization of the Labour Front, 
as a:practical expression of the National- 
Socialist 'idea,, that art should derive its 


November 28,1936 


“Art.” said Goebbels in 1936, "would 
suffer no loss by the disappearance of 
the critic.” For the bitter anti-Semite, 
culture must be the expression of 
National-Socialist values. 


insp i ration from the national ideals and 
characteristics, and exist not for art's sake, but 
to serve the interests of Stale and nation. 

“In a time such as ours (Dr. Goebbels said) 
which demands _ the utmost energy, endur¬ 
ance, and nerve, it is the ^edaJ mission of the 
artist tirelessly to communicate to the nation 
strength through joy." He then referre d to the 
difficulties in the way of a unified, cultural- 
poiitical tine, as he called it, and in this 
connexion concentrated on artistic criticism, 
which in spite of all efforts still bore 
characteristics of thefiberalistic-Jewish period. 

The presumptuous know4jeiters". he said. 


“who tchday through eternal grumbling per¬ 
secute the up-building of our cultural and 
artistic life with their unharmonious 
accompaniment are only (he hidden succes¬ 
sors of this Jewish autocracy of criticism." 
Every effort has been made to get them to 
reform. Dr. Goebbels adds, but in vain. 

YOUNGSTERS’ CRITICISM 
Dr. Goebbels then announced his prohibition. 

It did not mean, he said, the suppression of 
freedom of opinion, but only those might 
publish their opinions who had a free opinion 
of their own and were qualified by their 
knowledge, accomplishments, and abilities to 
sit in judgment on others who apjxajed to the 
public with imaginative work. 

“Recently in Berlin we have seen how 22- 
' year-old youngsters have drawn swords 
against accomplished artists 40 or 50 years of 
age and famous throughout the world, without 
showing a sign of expen knowledge in their 
criticisms." They ought to take as a first 
exercise the description of a work of art. 

It could not be tolerated that, white in 
everything else foe Ffihrer'S great constructive 
work was warmly supported by public 
opinion, artists, of all people, should be the last 
vi ctims nf free criridsm. 

For foe rest, said Dr. Goebbels. art would 
suffer no loss by the disappearance of the critic. 




















































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THE TIMES TODAY 


FRIDAY NOVEMBER 281997 




MPs attack Blair on Formula One 


■ Tony Blair came under renewed pressure over the Formula 
One affair as two Commons committees — both Labour 
dominated — strongly criticised his derision to exempt motor 
raring from the tobacco sponsorship ban. 

The Commons health and European legislation committees 
rushed out reports seriously questioning the Prime Minister's 
justification for. the special treatment — the first time the 
Government has faced select-committee criticism- Page 1 

Guinness casts cloud over Cjty 

■ Inspectors from the Department of Trade and Industry 

accuse the main players in the Guinness affair of “an enterprise 
of deception" in their report, published ten years after it was 
commissioned. Although further prosecutions are unlikely, the 
report cast a cloud over City practices----Pfcge 1 


Prisoner can sue 

A convicted rapist accused of ha¬ 
rassing a woman from prison 
with letters and phone calls was 
given permission to sue her for 
Libel for writing to the police 
about his behaviour....Page 1 

Beckett blind trust 

Margaret Beckett is receiving 
fin an cal assistance from a blind 
trust set up before the election, 
despite a pledge by the Labour 
leadership to publicise the names 
of all its donors-Page 2 

Spencer’s offer 

Wounded by accusations of adul¬ 
tery and cruelty, Earl Spencer 
went on the offensive, revealing 

the d rvorce deal he has offered his 
estranged wife.—Page 3 


Missing millions 

City experts should be recruited 
to trace millions of pounds hid¬ 
den by criminals. Sir Geoffrey 
Dear, an Inspector of Con- 
stabulaiy and a former Chief 
Constable, said-Page 3 

Hunts scent defeat 

Pro-hunt campaigners accused 
opponents of "emotional Mack- 
mail" as they faced a resounding 
defeat in today’s second reading 
vote in the Commons_Page 7 

Gender bending 

Gay prisoners in die 1950s were 
given electric shock treatment 
and oestrogen — a female sex 
hormone—in an attempt to make 
them heterosexual-Page 8 


Diet dangers 

An obsession with healthy eating, 
exercise and vegetarianism is fu¬ 
elling the growth of anorexia and 
bulimia among teenage girls, the 
director of a specialist clinic told 
headmistresses-Page 9 

‘Sink Britannia' 

The Princess Royal's appeal for 
Britannia to be scutried and not 
preserved as a tourist attraction 
has left the Government — which 
had decided scrapping the yacht 
would cause public outrage — in 
a dilemma_Page 10 

Netanyahu challenge 

A leading member of Binyamin 
Netanyahu's Likud party backed 
the creation of a limited Palestin¬ 
ian state in a new challenge to the 
Israeli Prime Minister.... Page 15 

Transplant plea 

James Earl Ray, 69, the man 
convicted of killing Martin Lu¬ 
ther King, needs $250,000 for a 
liver transplant _Page 16 

Push against polio 

India is mobilising its Armed 
Forces, two million health work¬ 
ers and millions of youth volun¬ 
teers in a historic push against 
poliomyelitis-Page 17 


ANC ‘feared Winnie’ 

Leading ANC members feared 
Winnie MadDdzela-Mandela and 
her bodyguards and failed to end 
her Soweto reign of terror. Arch¬ 
bishop Desmond Tutu’s Truth 
Commission was told..... Page 18 


Rock music at Hutchence funeral 


■ A distraught Paula Yates, cradling their 16-month daughter, 
said goodbye to Michael Hutchence—who died at the weekend 
aged 37—at a moving and sombre but colourful funeral, which 
included rock music, in Sydney. Thousands of INXS fans stood 
outside and another 1.200 mourners had seats inside St 
Andrew’s Cathedral...-. Pages 1,5 



Piiwte wr Patricia Ronttedge’s OAP 
>| detective is bade. Hetty Wain-, 
thropp Investigates (BBC!, 
9.30pm). Review: Matthew Bond 
sheds a tear for Hora from Byker 
Grove- —1_~4- Pa &s 46,47 


Dr Heena Fuel, accompanied by her husband. Dr Paul Oliver, and their sons, was one of hundreds ofXJgandan Asians atar. 
service in Westminster Abbey yesterday to commemorate the silver j^bftee of fbeir arrival in Britain. Page70 






The Government pub¬ 
lished the Bill paving the way for 
the national minimum wage, mak¬ 
ing it dear that the new statutory 
rate will cover all regions and all 
sectors of industry---Page 28 


Barclays: The bank has been 
forced to retain BZW’s exposure to 
a El billion legal action under the 
terms of the £100 million sale of foe 
securities operation_Page 27 

Taxation: Independent tax treat¬ 
ment of husband and wives is 
threatened the Chancellor's plans 
for reforming the tax and benefit 
regime_...Page 27 

Markets: The FTSE 100 dosed 


daw n 22 points at 4889.0. Sterling'S 
trade-weighted index rose to 104.4 
after a rise to $1.6747 and to 
DM2.9545_Page 30 


Football: Spanish referees are 
striking this weekend, not about 
their £5O0-a-matdi fee but because 
they have taken constant criticism 
to heart-Page 52 

Rugby union: Nick Greenstodc, of. 
Wasps, will play at centre in the 
England side against South Africa, 
replacing Phil de Gianville who 
has an ankle injury-Page 48 

Cricket: The 1998 English season's 
fixture list has a radical look, with 
an international triangular tourna¬ 
ment and Axa Life League games 

on a variety of days-Page 46 

Tennis: With Pete Sampras and 
Michael Chang, foe world No 1 
and No 31 United States start 
as warm favourites to lift foe 
Davis Cup against Sweden in 
Gothenburg_Page 46 


Museum charges: "A turnstile at 
the British Museum would not sig¬ 
nal the end of civilisation,” Richard 
Morrison writes. “It might just 
help to preserve it”...-Page 38 


Disabled outcry: The National 
Theatre is under fire from disabled 
people for its production The Crip k 
pie of Inishmeum. They claim that 
it showed a disabled person as a 
figure of fun ...I__Page 38 


Pop on Friday: Caitlin Moan 
charts foe rise and fall of Britpop; 
David Sinclair wades through the 
Princess Diana Tribute Album's 
overwrought ballads ——.Page 39 
Davis triumphant The London 
Symphony Orchestra's Sibelius 
cyde continued with Sir Cotin 
Davis’s superb Sixth and Seventh 
Symphonies___Page 40 



TOMORROW 


IN THE TIMES 


■ JONATHAN MEADES 
We must build high 
to save the 
countryside from 
die developers 


■ LAURA ASHLEY 
The in-fighting 
that brought down 
die flower of . 
English fashion 


Make It a fake: Faking it is no 
longer a cheapskate’s alternative or 
foe reaction to foe' animal rights 
lobby, irs fashionable, says Grace 
Bradberry—..Pages 19,20 


Long struggle: Adam Mars-Jcnes 
looks at Public Records Office doc¬ 
uments that duut'thelong and 
bitter battle for homosexual law 
reform..Page 21 


c Michael Kuhn is the 
man bdiind Bean, and Four Wed¬ 
dings arid a Funeral .:. now, he 
tells Raymond Snoddy, he wants to 

take on foe world._Pages 41-44 

UngeriUamanly rsBsh: Why editors 
who suffered.the lash from Earl 
Spencer after the death of Diana. 
Princess of Wales, are retiring his 
discomfiture__—Page 42 


UnappsaSng: Girls’ sdiools are 
critical of parents who want second 
opinions when A-level results fall 
below expectations-Page 37 


Yamakhi’s bankruptcy has effects 
beyond the immediate conse¬ 
quences for Asia, Europe and the 
US. It is about the struggle for ec¬ 
onomic supremacy in the Pacific 
Rim. ... Although China has ^ 
opted many of capitalism’s rafeg* 
It has remained immune from the; 
Asian Tigers^ troubles. This, may 
not last — La Stampa (Rnhij 


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Ghosts of Labour Past 

Either a minimum wage does little 
harm, but little good; or it risks 
harming the very poorest, those 
■ with no job at all while damaging 
the overall economy —Page 23 

Open season 

Deployment of logic by supporters 
of hunting shouldbe matched fcya 
sensitivity to the concerns of their 
honest opponents...,,-Page 23 





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Hague’s gender gap 

If women had always voted the 
same way as men, Britain would 
have had many more Labour gov¬ 
ernments. The gender gap is cru¬ 
cial to the Tories-Page 23 


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MATTHEW PARRIS 

Bruce Anderson, foe political editor 
of The Spectator, wrote The Times 
-a courteous letter putting the case 
for derisive actum to settle the Tory 
course at. once in a Eurosceptic 
direction. If there are some who are 
reluctant to march, he said, it is 
better they leave now. His argu¬ 
ment is powerful, rational and pro¬ 
foundly unwise —.Page 22 


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Flexibility is one of the great words 
of the millennium's end. We know 
it is in someway right, as a signifi- 
er of the end of an era in which 
places were, for alime, knewn and 
in which classes were, though nev¬ 
er static, defined-.Page 22 


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YVETTE COOPER ' 

Safeguarding collieries is bring 
portrayed as a hopelessly uneco- 
rtoadc thing todo-_—__—Page 22 


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Major-General lam' Campbell; 
Australian infantry commander 
Shake- Keane, jazz , trumpeter, 
Mohammad-All Jamalzadch, 
Iranian author; Jim Miller, 
businessman_;-Page 25 


Selection of Tory candidates; 
-foxhunting debate; repression in 
Albania: clergy debts; radio for 
dtildrcou.—:-Page 23 


THE TIMES CROSSWORD NO 20,649 



ACROSS 

1 Two ankles of tableware seen in 
window (5,5). 

7 Old car involved in pfle-up? (4). 

9 Revolutionary means of measur¬ 
ing p rog r ess in the US (8). 

10 A possible approach with no 
going back? (3-3), 

11 A high position in the church is 
hope (6). 

12 Did eating mushroom become 
standard? (8). 

13 Blonde female with distinctive 
appearance (4). 

15 Popular demand for speedy ac¬ 
tion about leader of Serbian 
revolution (10). 

18 Notice discrimination in jodidal 
pronouncement (10). 

20 Wrong-tiring not recorded 
retrospectively (4). 

2! Impractical fellow, perhaps (8). 


24 Set up, as last resort at home 
iziitBally (6). 

26 Sort of hole one may get into by 
cutting corner (3-3). 

27 Turning back in defeat (8). 

28 Remain a short time in state (4). 

29 Sort of table that's pinned beside 
entrance (id). 


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3 As an occasional typist one (no* 
duces such speeds (5). 

4 Concluding assembly (9). 

5 Oxygen’s made available along 
these flight motes (7). 

6 One of die okl school resigned in 
difficult rireumstances (5). 

7 Part of sock AdriHes didn’t get 
washed (4-5). 

8 Feast ready to eat? (5). 

14 Could this song be made any 
louderi(9). 

16 Rand unusually made relative 
recovery (9). 

17 Pal is on look out for crockery (9). 

19 Snatch last of beer in bar (7). 

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Trade department 
.inquiry into the 
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PAGE 32 


BUSINESS EDITOR Patience Wheatcroft 


ARTS 

Caitlin Moran 
writes the last 
rites Over Britpop 
PAGES 38-40 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 281997 




SPORT 

Dalton navigates 
troubled waters 
entering Fremantle 
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Taylor tlSOm for CSFB 

Brown 
seeks US 
support 
for EMU 

EromOuver August 

IN NEW YORK 

GORDON BROWN will 
make his first , trip to Wall 
Street as Chancellor next 
month in an attempt to 
win support from the New 
York financial community 
for his plans to trffe Brii- 
ain brio EMU. ; 

Mr Brown ,is aiming to. 
squash, growing scepti¬ 
cism m some parts of the . 
American badness com-. 

munity that could under- 
mine die sterling exchange - 
rate in theran up to EMXT 
entry. 

In a speech fiftheBrit--• 
ish-American Chamber of 
Commerce in NewTForifc ' 
next Friday he will outline 
“the Govenanenfs prepay 
rations for EMU and die 
start of a single currency 
within ttie European 
Union". ' . 

UK officials in New 
York said the attitude , of 
most US businessmen to 
EMU was positive, but' 
they have been shaken by 
a number of attacks on the 
single current'in recent 
weeks. The Wall Street 
visit by Mr Brown is 
aimed at “nipping Ameri¬ 
can Euro-scepticism in file 
butr. v 

Martin Fddstebxa, Pro¬ 
fessor of . JEconoinics at - 
Harvard, said in lisp latest 
issue of the influential 
Foreign Affairs periodical, 
that monetary and polit- . 
ical union would make - 
another war ; ; iir Enroger" 
more likely, not Jess. He . 
wrote: “The-American ex-. 


By JIason Nissfi 

BARCLAYS has been forced to 
retain BZWTs exposure to a El billion 
legal action under the terms erf the 
E100 million sate of the securities 
operation to CSFB, the Swiss 
broker.. 

The case arises from BZW’s work 
for British & Commonwealth Hold¬ 
ings the finance group that crashed 
in 1990 when it bought Atlantic 
Computers, the leasing group, two 
yean: prior to that 
- Earlier this month CSFB agreed 
to pay ElOOnplIion for BZW, though 
. Martin Taylor, Barclays chief exec¬ 


utive, allowed CSFB to keep £150 
million of. capital which Barclays 
had put into the broking operation. 

Meanwhile, talks on the sale of 
NatWest Markets, the broking side 
of NalWest Group, to Bankers Trust 
and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, are 
said to be dose to conclusion, with a 
£200 million deal expected to be 
announced as early as today. 

The Atlantic Computers action, 
which involves a whole raft of City 
advisers, accountants, lawyers and 
former directors of B&C is not due 
to come to court before 2000. 

BZW advised B&C on the £550 
million deal to buy Atlantic, which 


specialised in complex' computer 
leases.' mapy rfwhich-were found to 
be uayiaibfe after B&C bought the 
group. 

Atlantic went into administra¬ 
tion on Easter Sunday 1900, drag¬ 
ging B&C down with it a few weeks 
later in one of the biggest financial 
col Lapses in British history. The 
running of both Atlantic arid B&C 
have been investigated by the 
Department of Trade & industry, 
which recommended that a num¬ 
ber of B&C directors were 
disqualified. 

John Gunn, the former chairman 
of B&C, has vowed to fighi the 


disqualification proceedings and 
raatimito.-.w in' the City. 
However, rtfie cloud over him pre¬ 
vented Mr Gunn joining the board 
of Chelsea Village, the AIM-listed 
group that owns Chelsea, the Pre¬ 
miership football dub. 

The BZW director who led the 
team that advised B&C has long 
since left the bank. Richard Heley 
joined Hill Samuel in the early 
1990s and is now working at 
Charterhouse, the merchant bank. 
He is expeaed to be a key witness if 
the case comes to court. 

John Soden. a partner at Price 
Waterhouse and administrator of 


Atlantic, said the case involved 
more than 30 parties in a myriad of 
cross action with the loral liabilities 
now standing at more than El 
billion. BZW is one of the largest 
defendants in the case and its 
liability, if proven, could be more 
than LUX) million. 

The Atlantic case follows HSBC 
Holdings being forced to pay £176 
million to the creditors of B&C in an 
action that resulted from its pur¬ 
chase of Midland Bank. 

Samuel Montagu, the merchant 
banking arm of Midland, has 
advised Quadrex, a financial ser¬ 
vices group, on a deal with B&C. 


BUSINESS 

TODAY 


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Yield_ 3J3% 

FTSE Afl share .. 2308 .87 (+0.07) 

Nikkei_ 1A6O&20(+557.65) 

New Yoric 

Dow Jones. Closed 

S&P Composflu _ 


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Long Bond. 

Yield-- 


LONDON MONEY 


DTI doubted Mayhew 
bit Guinness evidence 


ByPaulDurman 


INSPECTORS for the De¬ 
partment of lYade and In¬ 
dustry investigating Guin¬ 
ness's takeover of Distillers 
did'naf believe .same of the 
evidence they received from 
David Mayhew, a senior 
partner in -Cazenove,' file 
most blue-blooded of City 
stockbrokers. , ! - 

In the mucb-delayalr^ort 
. into. Guinness’s E2ti bmion 
takeover of Distillers in 1<86, 
released yesterday, David 
Donaldson, QC. and. Ian Wart 
also question.-Mr Mayhew^ 
judgment in tactics he used to 
help Guinness -to defeat Ar- 
■ gyli^fiie rivid bidder in the 
taktidver-bafite: "V 
; -ntis forms pari of the OT' 
inspectors’ 7 damning indict-. 
ment of the integrity jrf-the 
Oily, to the report which, is 
mudi watered down from 
interim drafts that circulated, 
the City a few years ago, the 
-inspectors say these features 
“shine disturbingly through": 
“Firstly, the cymcal disregard 


Commentary „ 
Report^ details. 


of fiie South-may contain 
some lessons about the 
danger of a treaty or con¬ 
stitution that basno exits." 

Wall Street has ioryean 
been ehcxmra^pbag'Eun^ie. 
to proceed^ wSi monetary' 
union. .The major. JJS. 
h anks expected .ftiai EMU 
wfll give them-new (qpppr-! 
tunioes to earn to trrs. ■*,..* , 

To gain prime time trie- 
vision arvetagie of file visit,’ 
top US spin dottors '\vill 
advise Mr Brown’s adyis- 
ers, anMmg them Buisbii- 
Marstdfor, a Wafl Street 
public relations company. 


of laws and. regulations; sec¬ 
ond fy.tfte cavalier misuse of 
company moneys; thirdly, a 
contempt M truth told axn- 
mqn honesty: tol ihese in a. 
part of ttie Cfor'which' was 
thought respectable." 

In taking evidence, the,in- 
spectors “were feced cqnstanf- 
ly ytifii un ti u thful. in6om|rfete 
and sfetoFply'.confUcting 
testimony." . • 

Tlie evicfcite' rf Mr May- ■_ 
hew; who cnCfrfaced a crimin- 
to prosecution Tto his role in 
the GuinnesstoMr .is bought 
-into quesfioaovertheextent of 
Outenove’S freedom to buy E2Sr 
million of 'Guinness shares on 
behalf of J .RxxhsphSId Hold-- 
ings, an investment firm head¬ 
ed by Lord RothshAd-The 
inspectors, airy the aa»unt 
; from Rothschild's executives 
"terioserto the true penire". ‘ 
“Cazenove were in practice 
mtoftera-of-a forinidaNe re 
teirve Of purthase power eo-‘ 
trusted to them by JRH,” the 
report says. JRH spent £28.7 
nullfon on Guinness shares 


during the course ci the bid. 
but was not promised the 
indemnities or success fees 
that were part of the illegal 
support operation of the 
Guinness share price. The 
payment of indeminites led to 
the . conviction of Gerald 
Ronson, one of the largest of 
Guinness's supporters, along 
. with . Ernest Saunders, the 
company’s former chief execu¬ 
tive. Jack Lyons and Anthony 
Fames, :two of the advisers 

who helped it up. 

... The share prices, of 
Guinness and Argyll were 
vital to their hopes ofsuccess 
because shares farmed alarger 
part of the consideration they 
were offering to shareholders 
in Distillers. 

■ Mr Mayhew was also in¬ 
volved in a scheme to drive 
: down the Argyll riiare price by 
selling a stake held by another 
Guinness supporter al sfrtoe- 
gicafly sensitive moments. The 
inspectors say they -are "dis¬ 
turbed" by tbisstrategem and 
query whether it would be 
whhin the spirit of the City 
takeover code. 

Despite such remarks, 
Mark Loveday. Cazenove’s se¬ 
nior partner, said fiie report is 
"consistent with everything 
that was ever said on this 
•issue". He added: “There is no 
' criticism, and no suggestion of 
wrong-doing, either, by. the 
firm or David Mayhew." 

The report's harshest criti¬ 
cism of individuals is reserved 
: for Mr Saunders.' 

The inspectors find that Mr 
Saunders was folly aware of 
the illegal support activities, 
and the rabseqtiert payments 
-of £335million to Mr Fames 
fbreathtakingly. high’}, £3 
millioiL to Jade Lyons and £2 
million to Tom Ward, an 
American director of 
Guinness still wanted for 
_ arrest in the UK. Mr Saunders 
was to have himself received a 
£3 million success fee. the 
report concludes. 

' The Takeover Panel, the 
Securities and Futures Au¬ 
thority and others are examin¬ 
ing the report to see whether 
further action needs' to - be 
taken. However, it is thought 
unlikely that action wOI be 
taken against individuals. 



The harshest criticism is reserved for Ernest Saunders, then Guinness's chief executive 



David MayheWs judgment in tactics used during the battle is questioned by the report 


By Caroline Merrell and Aiasdair Murray 


UK ‘will ride out 
Far East turmoil’ 

By Ajlasoair Murray and Richard Miles 


Battle asks EU to 
refer Redland bid 


By Chris Ayres 





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INDEPENDENT tax treat¬ 
ment of husband and wives is 
threatened under plans un¬ 
veiled by the Chmcdlor this 
week for reforming file tax 
and bawfit regime. - 

It could herald a return to a 
system -where husbands and., 
wives are ' treated as one 
income unit for taxation. 

However, a Treasury 
spokesman said the Govern- 
ment had no set plans to end 
independent assessment of in¬ 
come tax. Implementation of 
the new scheme was still- 
under discussion' and foil de— 
ails would notbe'ready until 
the spring Budget 1 *TVe are 
aiming to mala: the benefits 
more work-oriented, but the 
test is whether it is effective 
and efficient." he said. 


The Govemmeiit is plan¬ 
ning a complete overhaul of 
the present system of family 
credit which is paid as a 
benefitto families with income 
of less than. £77 a week. It 
plans to replace family credit 
with a : tax credit system, 

similar to the one in America. 

Around £2 billion a year is 
paid out in family credit and it 
Kwortft ah average of £57 a 
week for families mat daim. 

Under a revised family tax 
credit system, workers will 
receive, the benefit in the form 
of tax relief- Gordon Brown 
said '-yesterday. “We want to 
look at how we can help more 
tow-paid workers to gain 
benefits from their work." 

Commentary, page 29 


EDDIE GEORGE, the Gov- 
emor of the Bank of England, 
yesterday expressed confi¬ 
dence that the UK would ride 

put the crisis in the financial 
markets in the Far East and 
that Japan would be able to 
restore confidence to its tot¬ 
tered banking sector. 

Mr George admitted there 
was a risk that the UK 
economy could be hit by 
damaging fallout from the 
problems in Japan and South 
Korea, but be said both coun¬ 
tries appeared to be taking 
positive action. 

He added: “Japan has die 
capacity to resolve its own 
problems. In the fast couple of 
weeks the Government has 
shown it is prepared to let 
banks go into liquidation and 


stand behind their liabilities." 
Yasuda, die Japanese trust 
bank whose credit rating was 
downgraded earlier this 
week, said yesterday that it 
would shed nearly 600jobs as 
part of a restructuring plan. 

The bank said it planned to 
raise Y100 billion (£500 mil¬ 
lion) of capital through fire 
issue of new shares and the 
- sale of its head office. It will 
also transfer its brokerage 
business to Fuji Securities. 

Yatnaichi, the broker that 
collapsed under £15 billion of 
debt, has appointed of DU 
Phoenix, a s pecia list corpo¬ 
rate finance adviser, to find a 
buyer. 

DU said that Yamaichi had 
already received approaches 
from international groups. 


JOHN BATTLE, Minister for 
Science, Energy and Industry, 
yesterday asked the European 
Commission to refer Lafarge's 
£1.8 billion agreed takeover 
bid for Redland, the building 
materials group, to the UK 
authorities. 

His decision is believed to 
be related id Lafarge’S owner¬ 
ship of Enernix. a ready-mix 
concrete business with opera¬ 
tions in Norwich and 
Leicester- The French group 
admitted that the takeover 
would give it market domi¬ 
nance in both areas. 

Lafarge yesterday saw ac¬ 
ceptances for its bid. which it 
increased on Wednesday to 
£1.8 billion to gain a recom¬ 
mendation. pass 50 percent of 
Redland's shares, and 


shrugged off the threat posed 
by the investigation. However, 
it admitted the competition 
authorities could force it to sell 
Enernix, but added that a less 
radical solution was more 
likely to be found. 

Analysts were initially baf¬ 
fled by Mr Battle’s statement, 
as Redland’s share of the 
ready-mix concrete market is 
known to be only' about 10 per 
cent. Shares in the company 
dipped slighly in the morning, 
but dosed 2b p up at 342p as 
confidence in the ileal grew. 

Lafarge also revealed yes¬ 
terday that ir had purchased 
more than 30 per cent of 
Redland after raising its offer 
price, and said its 345p per 
share offer was conditional on 
it gaining a 50 per cent stake. 


P&O set to 
unveil link 
in bulk 
shipping 

By Domimc Walsh 

P&O, the shipping and 
construction conglomerate, is 
poised to unveil a joint venture 
partner for its bulk shipping 
division aimed at cutting the 
level of investment needed. 

The move, expected to be 
welcomed by the City, was first 
signalled in March last year 
when Lord Staling of Plai- 
stow, chairman, unveiled a big 
deck-clearing exercise aimed at 
raising more than £1 billion. 

There had been suggestions 
that P&O might withdraw 
from bulk shipping altogeth¬ 
er, buT bringing in a joint- 
venture partner will satisfy 
concerns about the amount of 
investment that the business 
swallows. The agreementwitb 
the unnamed partner will 
mean that P&O no longer has 
to pump any of its own capital 
into the business. 

Another main plank of Lord 
Sterling's strategy will come to 
fruition next month when 
Bovis Homes is floated on the 
stock market, although latest 
indications suggest that the 
mooted £250 million valuation 
may be optimistic. 

There have also been sug¬ 
gestions that P&O is dose to 
selling the Am dale shopping 
centre, in Manchester, to Pru¬ 
dential for about £300 million. 


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Chiefs apology 

George Mathewson, chief 
executive of Royal Bank of 
Scotland, apologised to 
customers for the problems of 
Tesco savings accounts, 
which RBS administers in a 
joint venture. 

Page 29, Tempos 30 

Tribunal clash 

The battle between Sir 
Desmond Pitcher, outgoing 
chairman of United 
Utilities, and Brian Staples, 
toe chief executive he 
ousted in the summer, is set 
to be replayed next month 
a! a Manchester industrial 
tribunal. 

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28 BUSINESS NEWS 


THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 281997 „ 


Round two of 
Staples and 
Pitcher fight 

By Christine Buckley, industrial correspondent 


THE dispute between Sir 
Desmond Richer, outgoing 
chairman of United Utilities, 
and Brian Staples, the chief 
executive he ousted in the 
summer, is set to be replayed 
next month at a Manchester 
industrial tribunal. 

Derek Green, the new chief 
executive, said the company 
intended to fight vigorously 
the claims of unfair dismissal 
from Mr Staples, who is to 
become chief executive of 
Amey in the new year. 

Mr Staples is claiming more 
than El million in compensa¬ 
tion. Mr Green said: “The 
suggestion that Brian's depar¬ 
ture was the result of a 
personality clash with Des¬ 
mond Pitcher was a 
nonsense." 

Mr Staples was sacked in 
July and immediately instruct¬ 
ed his lawyers to tackle Uni¬ 
ted. The controversy led to the 
early retirement of Sir Des¬ 
mond. After institutional pres¬ 
sure Sir Desmond said that he 
will leave next spring instead 
of his preferred date of 2000. 

A severance package for Sir 
Desmond, who earns 


£310,000 a year, is now being 
prepared. 

Mr Green, who has con¬ 
ducted a review of United 
Utilities’s businesses, yester¬ 
day said that die company 
would make £40 million in 
additional savings by 1999 
through extra efficiencies from 
die fusion of the electricity and 
water businesses. 

He has jettisoned ambitious 
plans laid by Mr Staples for a 
full-blown move into die com¬ 
petitive electricity market 

United has still to sign key 
licence agreements for die 
opening of competition in the 
domestic market next April. It 
is complaining to the regula¬ 
tor of a lack of clarity. 

The company lifted pre-tax 
profits for the six months to 
September 30 to E233.6 mil¬ 
lion. Its interim dividend was 
increased 9.7 per cent to 
13.16p. Sir Desmond stressed 
that United would moderate 
dividend increases in order to 
“underpin die sustainability of 
the dividend in die longer 
term." 

Water customers are to get a 
£6-50p rebate next year. 



Stuart Lloyd, chief executive of Sutcliffe. Speakman, saw pre-tax profits slip from £2.6 million to £2J5 million 
in fixe half year to September. Earnings slipped from l_35p to l-23p bat the dividend rose from 0.43p to 0.50p 


Yorkshire Water defiant over payout 


By Christine Buckley 

INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT 

YORKSHIRE WATER, which is still 
trying to redeem its reputation after its 
performance in the 1995 drought, yester¬ 
day defied the regulator’s warnings over 
high dividends by lifting its interim 
payment 20 per cent But it claimed that it 
bad struck a better balance between 
shareholders and customers. 


Brandon Gough, chairman, said the 
six months to September 30 had pro¬ 
duced “a useful, healthy but not excessive 
increase in profits but underpinned by 
some good improvements in customer 
service'*. Kevin Bond, chief executive, 
said the dividend had been raised by 20 
per cent after a commitment to give real 
growth of up to 8 per cent and after a 
share buyback had increased returns. 
Homes cut off for more than 12 hours 


dropped to 668 in the six months, 
compared with 2274 a year ago. 

Pre-tax profits were £115.7 million, up 
from £109.4 milli on- The interim divi¬ 
dend, due January 23, was set at 6.15p. 

□ Wessex Water's pretax profits were 
trimmed by the costs of buying back 
some of its shares last year.Pre-tax profits 
for the six months to September 30 fell 45 
per cent to £72.1 milli on. An interim of 
65p. up 14 per cent is doe April 6. 


LEGAL NOTICES 




ASSOCIATED GAS SUPPLIES LIMITED 


Tamn-Wid CondWona 

These Terms and Conditions are incorporated Into your Agreement and sets out 
die basis upon which wa wffl supply you or i*»n wNchew wffl be deemed to 
supply you as described under the heading "De e m e d Contracts' below. Hie 
Agreement is betweenAGAS and yourself. The Agreement and supply will start 
on the Supply Date which we wffl confirm to you In writing. 

1. Payment 

Your gas bill will be based on an estimate which wffl then be racondted 
whenever a meter reeding Is taken. Ybu must pay for any ges supplied to 
your premise s accordi ng to the chosen payment method and frequency 
and at the prevailing price set out in the Price Schediie which forms pert 
of the Agreement You must also pay us the rate shown in our published 
Deemed Customer Price Schedule for any of our gas used outside the 
terms of the Agreement or at any time die Agreement Is not in force 
together with any costs we incur due to such use. Payment dates wil be 
indicated on the bIL When any payment from you is overdue by at least 
28 days from the date of written demand, we may recover this from 
you and stop you from ch a ngin g to a different suppler. The amounts of 
gas suppfled wffl be calculated according to the requirements of the law. 
2 The Meter 

Ybu must tel us immediatefy if the meter is replaced or modfied. V it is a 
prepayment meter you must left us when it needs emptying or Is faulty. If 
the prepayment meter falls to work we wffl not be table for non-supply 
unless it is due to our nagSganoe. 'feu must ensue diet no pert of the 
meter including the seel or any attached notice te m i s t re ated or removed. 
An estimate may be used ifthe meter is laity. We wffl charge you tor any 
costs which may arise should you take ges except through (he metet mu 
agree to alow re aso n a ble acce ss (on suitable notice} to ouisalves and 
anyone else who can Identity themselves and who reasonably needs 
access to mad the meter or in connection with the supply generally. 

3. Uabffity 

Wb (tnduefing anyone who works for us) wffl not be fable to you tor any 
loss of use, profits, contr ac t s , production or revenue or tor Increased cost 
of working or business Interr u p ti on however caused. 

A Non-Supply 

H we cannot comply with the Agreement tor any reason beyond our control 
or we cannot supply you owing to works, repair, main te n a nce or safety 
reasons, then we wffl not be In breach of the Agreement Where a dire ction 
is given u us under section 2(1 Kb) of the Energy Act 1976 (emergencies 
we are permitted to discontinue or restrict the gas sippiy and you must 
stop or restrict the use of gas when we ask you to. 

5. Termination 

The Agreement wffl continue until vaftfly termi na ted on 28 days advance 
written notice to take effect from wrier a new and vafid agre e men t Is 
reached between oursteves (or another suppfier) and either you or anyone 
else at your premises or from when the premises a* disconnected 
because you no longer need a supply. If you are moving house It may be 
terminated on «8 hours advance notice to take effect from the date you 
either leave or cease to own the premises otherwise you must pay tor any 
gas used unti the meter is nest read, another customer takes over the 
supply or the 2Bth day from when you aduaOy gave us notice (whichever 
is the eartar). The Agreement wffl terminate auto mattca By at any time 
another suppfier is required by taw to supply your premises, ff either party 
commits a signi fica nt breach of the Agreement the other may temv na ta 
(without affecting any existing rights or obligations of either Party) on 
reasonable notice. 

6. Safety 

Anything done or not done by ourselves or the company wfech owns tho 
pipes connec te d to ytv premises in deafing wffl an emeigancy or a 
safety issue wffl not be in breach of the Ageama nt 

7. General 

Vtb may vary the AgreemenL If there are any significant changes we wffl 
notify you of any v a riations which are to your serious dteadvarrtags and. 
provided you terminate (on 21 days advance written notice to us) within 14 
days of our notifying you, you wffl not be bound by the variations in the 
■menu. You must not sign a gas supply agreeme nt with more than one 
suppSer at any one time. The Agreement represents the entire agreement 
between us and supersedes anythng previously said, done or impfied 
which adds to or confficts with tt. 

8. Deemed Contracts 

if you use our gas at any lime the Agree m ent is not in farce or in other 
cases provided tor by law the above terms and condition s wffl stffl apply 
(wffl any necessary changes) but they wffl constitute a Deemed Contract 
of the kind required by our licence. The need to give us 28 days notice wffl 
not apply although If you am moving out you wffl stffl need to teB us 48 
hours in adv a n ce for be table tor charges as above). Instead, the Bea me d 
Contract wffl continue In force untti we or another suppfier begins to supply 
you under a written contract If the meter was not read before you began 
using our gas under the Deemed Contract your chinas for the un m e te red 
period or untH the supply ceases (if this tit before the mater is first read 
after your supply began) wffl be based on a reaso nabl e estimate of what 
your premises would have consumed. Variation* to the □ n a m ed Contract 
wffl take effect when pubSsfted. 

Copyright Associated Gas SuppGes Limited 
AGAS Domestic Customer Price Schedule 
Effective &th November 1967 
SfnrirriTWHf Ohwci IteMiTariff 

--» — nBn wf^rai 

wW«|) (wrwe 

Pence per kWh PanoeporkWb 

AbbeymeadsHaydon Abbeymo a da Haydon 

Wick Swindon 1J67prKWh WrcfcSwfodon U289pAWh 

AB other sites 1A12p/MWi All other sites T.3290/kWh 

Stantfing Charge Starting Charge 

AbbeymeadsHaydon Abbeymead s Haydon 

Wick Swindon 9iSSpUey Wick Swindon BJOpfttay 

AH other sites 9£7pfday AB other sites &57pftty 

A8 prices are exclusive of VAT which wffl be added at toe spphable fate: 
Standard Tariff payments wffl be paid quarterly. Unless existing anangsments 
(eg. Ovect Debits) have been permi tt e d to re mai n in pface a! payments due 

under foe Deemed Contract wffl afeo be due Quarterly and supply vril be at (he 

Standard Ttenfr until farther notice. 

PG Adams 

for and on beftaff of Associated Gas Suppfes Limited 
28th November 1997 
Issue ID 

Ounrlntm fit ft—n I hnliaif 


W-1»-1- 

(A) Ptasugnt to par a grap h 8 of Schedtifa 2B to the G«s Act T886 pheAcT) 
Assodtoed Gas Suppfies Limited TASAS1 is retMrad to mfflte a scheme 

ftha Scheme') for determining tho terms and oondtions which aw to be 
incorporated into the c ontract s wNefi an by wan of paragraph 8(1) » 
8(2) of Schedule 2B to the Act deemed to be made by ADAS wffl 
c o n s u mers in the thwmata negs sal ot* to those pa ragr ^S B. 

(8) This document constitutes toe Sfflame mentioned In Recital A above 
wheb Scheme sh* take effect on the Start* Data 
fCJ Thte Scheme may be amended from tone to ftne by AGAS aubjec* to the 

portions of the flas suppfiers ficence deemed to have been panted 
foununt to Section 7A(1) of the Ac9 to AGAS on is Maroh Tgss. 


tn this Scheme 

1.1 ’D eeme d Contract* ahaB mean the contract deemed to be created by 
this Scheme. 

12 -Deemed Customer* shafl mean, jointly or severally, any consumer or 
consumers who take a supply in the ci r cum st an ces set out In 
paragr a phs 8(1) or 8(2) of Schedule 2B save that this shal not apply 
to any consumer sraipfied wffl gas to particitar premises at a rate 
which is reasonably expected to exceed 2JjQ0 therms par yean 
1.3 "Effective Date' shafl mean 28th November 1997. 

Z The Scheme 

2.1 AGAS hereby d ete rmines that all Deemed Customers shal be 
supplied by virtue of this Scheme on the terms and conditions sat out 
In Schedirie 1 (the Deemed Customer Condtions) and SchecMa 2 
(the Deemed Customer Price Schedule) hereto. 

Schedule 1 

Deemed Customer Terms mid C ontffl tto ne 
These Terms and Condtions ate inc or porated into yourA gra am w H and sets out 
the basis upon which we wffl supply you or upon which we wffl be deemed to 
amply ycu as described wider the heatfing T te e mo d C ontracts* below The 
Agreement is between AGAS and yarned. TheA^eement and supply wffl start 
an the Supply Date which wb wil confirm to you in writing. 

1. Payment 

Your gas bffl wffl be based on «■ estimate which will than be raconcBsd 
whenever a mater reading is taken. Ybu must pay lor any ges supplied to 
your premises a cc en ting to the chosen payment method and frequency 
and at the prerafing prise set out to the ftoce Schedule which forms part 
of the Agreement Ybu must also pay us at the rate shown in our published 
Deemed Customer Price Schedule for »iy of our gas used outside the 
terms of the Agreement or at any time the Agreement is not in force 
together wffl any casts we incur due to such use. Payment dates wffl be 
Indicated on the bffl. When any payment from you Is overdue by at least 
28 days from the date of written demand, wa may recover this from 
you and stop you tern ehangfog to a (efferent supptoc The amounts of 
gas suppled wffl be calculated a ccortfing to the re q u irement s of the law. 
Z The Meter 

Ybu must tel us nunsdtetely if the mater is replaced or motflfied. If Mis a 
prepayment meter you must tel us when it needs emptying or is faulty. If 
the prepayment meter fata to work we wffl not be table far norroppiy 
unless it Is due to ow negfigenc e . Ybu must ensure that no part of the 
meter Inriuflng the seal or my attached notice is mistreated or removed. 
An estimate may be used if the meter is faity. Mte wffl fflarga you tor any 
costs which may arise should you take gas except throutfi the meter. Ybu 
agree to allow reasonable access (on suitable notice) to ourselves and 
anyone rise who can foentSy themselves and who reasonably needs 
access to read the meter or In connection with ttie supply ganertely. 

3. UafaNty 

We (ktchidng anyone who works for us) wffl not be fable to you for any 
toss of use. profits, contracts, production or revenue or for rcreasad cost 
of working or business interruption however caused. 

4. Non-Supply 

If we cannot comply with tin Agreement far any reason beyond our conbol 
or we cannot supply you owing u works, repair; ni rin te unta or ssfety 
reasons, then we wffl not be in breach of the Agreement. Where a direction 
Is given to us under section 2(1Xb) of the Energy Act 1978 (emwganctes) 
we are permitted to t iscon tin ue or restrict the gas supply and ycu must 
stop or restrict the use of gas when we ask you to. 

6. Termination 

The Agoemam wffl continue untfl vafidty am w ated on 28 days advice 
written notic e to take affect from whan a new and vafid a greem en t Is 
reached between oursaives for teiotiier suppfist) and effler you or anyone 
else at your pre m ise s or from when the premises are disconnected 
because you no longer need a supply. If you are moving house a may be 
terminated on 48 fcous advance notice to tike effect from the ctato you 
either leave cr cease to own the p rem i s es o ther w ise you must pay tor any 
gas used until the meter is next read, another customer takes over the 
supply or tha 28ih day from when you actuaBy gave us notice (whichever 
is the earfiet). The Agreement wffl ter m ina te au to m a ncafiy at any time 
another suppfier Is required by law to supply your premise&. R either party 
commit, a significant breech of the Afpeement the other may terminate 
(without Meeting any existing rights or obligations of either Party) on 
i s t m i fl h k notice. 

& Safety 

Artyttfing done or not done by ourselves or the company which owns tha 
pipes connecte d to your premises to oaawig with an emergency or a 
safety issue wffl not be In breach of the Agreement. 

7. General 

V1% may vary the Agreement. R there are any signfflcffll changes we wffl 
notify you of any va ria t i on s which are to your serious rflsadvgitage and, 
provkfed you temwiafe (on 21 days advance written notice to us) wfflin 14 
days of our notifying you, you wffl not be bound by the variations in the 
Interim. Ybu wuB not sign a gas supply ag reemen t wffl more then one 
supplier at any one time. The Agreement represents tire entire ajyeement 
between us and supersedes anything prewousfy said, done or impfied 
which adds to or conflicts wfth it 

8. Deemed Contracts 

8 you use ar gas at any time the Agreement is not n farce or fat other 
cases provided far by law the above terms and contftiora wffl stffl apply 
(with any necessary changes) but they wifi constitute a Deemed Contract 
of the kind raquaed by or Seance. The need tn^ve us 28 days notice wffl 
net apply although it you Be mewtog out you wffl stffl need to tel us 48 
hours in advance for be table tor charges as above), instead, the Deemed 
Contract wifi continue in force until we or another s u p pl ier be gi ns to supply 
you raider a written contract If the meter was no! read before you began 
wring our gas infer the Deemed Contrara your charges tor the imwcarad 
period or untfl tire Koty cesses (if tfas is before fhe meter is Srsf read 
after ytwr supply began) wffl be based on a reasonable esunraa ol what 
your premises wcwld have consumed. Variations to the Deemed Contract 
wffl take effect When published. 

Schedule 2 

AGAS Dee m ed Cwtewr Price Schedule 
Bfecdve 28th November 1987 

STANDARD TA8ST DIRECT DEBT TARIFF 

(wheraappficabte) (where appBcafeie) 

Pence per kWh Pence per kWh 

AbbeymeadsHaydon Abbaymeacfe Hayden 

Wtk Swindon 1JJ67pflcWh WcfcSwmdon 1289fAWh 

A*alharstt8Sl.412p/WWi Afi other sites 1-329pMM) 

Standing Charge Sfendbig Charge 

AbbeymeadsHaydon A b beymeadsHaydon 

Wick Swindon 9J6pMay Wick Swindon aZQptooy 

Afi offrer sites S.87pMay Al o mar s ites 8J7pfttey 

Afi prices are exclusive of VAT ntach wffl be added at tha « p pfc j iM» rate. 
Standard TtiriR payments wffl be paid qu&terty. Unless masting a rrangeme n ts 
fe-fl- Direct Debits have been permitted to reman m ptece all payments due 
under the Deemed Contract wffl also be due Quarterly and supply wffl be at tho 
Standard fenig urns further n o tice. 

PG Adorn 

Issue 1.0 


J 



ITN takes stake 
in Euronews 

By Raymond Snoddy, media editor 



INDEPENDENT Television 
News will today sign a deal to 
take over 49 per cent plus 
managerial control of Euro¬ 
news, the pan-European tele¬ 
vision news channel that is 
available to 90 million house¬ 
holds in 43 countries. 

It is ITN’s first foray into 
running a channel of its own 
and its most-significant move 
so far outside the UK. 

Euronews, which special¬ 
ises in world news, business 
and sport, broadcasts in Eng¬ 
lish, French. German. Span¬ 
ish. and Italian, with an 
Arabic service in peak time. 

ITN, now owned by 
Carlton, Granada, United 
News & Media, Associated 
Newspapers and Reuters, sees 


the Euronews move as a 
business expansion and be¬ 
lieves the loss-making chan¬ 
nel, which is based in Lyons, 
can be turned into profit 
within two years. 

ITN is buying the 49 per 
cent stake in the venture held 
by Alcatel far about £5 million 
and the European broadcast¬ 
ers who are shareholders in 
the venture, RAI of Italy. 
France Television, Swiss 
Broadcasting and TVE of 
Spain, have agreed to give 
ITN managerial control. 

Recent studies of pan-Euro¬ 
pean viewing showed Euro- 
news second behind CNN but 
a long way ahead of NBC. 
BBC World and European 
Business News. 


Hit list from Hardem 


Asia turmoil may hit 
us, says Euromoney 

SHARES in Euromoney Publications, the publishing 
group that recently bought Institutional Investor m Jte 
United States for £85 million, dropped by 35p, tn £16-85. after 

file company gavewaming lhat the turmoil in Asian markets 

could aileci its next year’s results. 

Richard Ensor, the managing director of Euromoney, said: 

"Dus is not a profits warning. We do not make any forecasts, 
it was a pretty obvious statement to make, we have no idea 
how the Asian market is going to pan out All our products 
are of switching focus to other parts of the world.'’ 

The statement from Euromoney came as the company 
reported a 19 per cent increase in its pre-tax profits for the 
year to September 30. rising from £25-5 million to £303 
million and significantly above the City’s expectations. 
Turnover was up by 25.per cent, from £104 million to £131 
million - and eariuncs per-share were up. by 19 per cent from 
75.93ptd90.25p; A final dividend of 33p, rising from 32p, will 
be paid on January 26, taking the total dividend for the year 
to 51p, increased from 46p. Tempos, page 30 

Directors’ pay up 8.6% 

DIRECTORS last year got an average 8.6 per cent more in pay 
packages than in 1995. According to Monks Partnership, the 
remuneration consultancy, basic salaries rose 63 per cent. For 
financial businesses the bask rise was 7.4 per cent while the 
full package rose IL3 per cent For property compani es die 
basic increase was 4.1 per cent while total earnings jumped 
103 per cent. In industrial and commercial companies the rises 
were 63 per and 7 Jb per cent. Twelve board directors earned 
more than £1 rruDion. compared with seven the previous year. 

licence for Atlantic 

THE Atlantic Telecom Group said yesterday that it has 
received Government approval in principle fora fixed radio 
telecommunications licence to run services throughout the 
UK. Atlantic launched a radio telecommunications service in 
Glasgow, last year and says that 10.000 lines are either 
already installed dr are about to be installed. The company 
plans to offer services to homes and business promises in a 
number of areas of England without requiring it, in 
principle, to incur die cost of building a national network. 

Bristol press group up 

BRISTOL UNITED PRESS, the regional newspaper group 
that last month bought Newsquesrs Wessex newspapers 
subsidiary for £35 million, lifted pre-tax profits by 63 per cent 
in the half year to September 30. from £43 million to £6.9 
milli on- Total sales were £33.7 million, up 8 per cent from £31.1 
m Align. Earnings per share were up 78 per cent, froml0.81pto 
19.24p. An interim dividend of 6p, up from 5.25p, is due on 
January If- The company said that Wessex; which owns 
eleven titles, had been successfully integrated into the group. 

I&S hits Caledonia 

INTERIM pre-tax profits at Caledonia Investments declined 
£13 million to £22.4 million after the poor performance at 
Ivory & Sime, the Edinburgh fund manager, and last year's 
sale of Bristow Helicopters. The diversified trading and 
investments company agreed to sell two thirds of its 29 per 
cent stake in Ivory & Sime to Friends Provident which is 
taking over the company. Earnings per share dipped from 
17.7p.to 17p. Hie company declared an interim dividend of 
6.5p, up 03p. • : •' . 


MICHAEL HARDERN. the 
“carpetbagging" activist is 
targeting three more building 
societies for conversion after 
his failed attempt at the Na¬ 
tionwide in the summer 
(Gavin Lumsden writes). 

Mr Hardem. a former Roy¬ 
al butler, is urging thousands 
of people who have received 
copies of his carpetbagger's 
guide to vote him on to the 
boards erf Bradford & Bingley, 


Britannia and Chelsea Build¬ 
ing Societies. 

He wants the societies to 
abandon their mutual status 
and hand out windfalls to 
their members. Members who 
agree should send a stamped 
addressed envelope to his 
home in London tor a Wind¬ 
fall Action Form by December 
31, he said. All three building 
sodetites have removed him 
from their membership rolls. 


Firms face 
£5,000 fine 
for failure 
to observe 
pay decree 

By Philip Bassett • 
Industrial Editor 

BUSINESSES refusing to 
pay the national minimum 
wage will face fines of up to 
£5,000. the Gove r n m ent said 
yesterday when it published 
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The minimum wage will 
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Crown employees, agency 
workers and the armed forces. 
Ministers are reserving the 
power to exempt all people 
under the age of 26. and 
trainees from the Bill's cover¬ 
age depending on the recom¬ 
mendations of the Low Pay 
Commission, which will sug¬ 
gest an initial minimum rate 
to ministers next year. 

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appoint new inspectors or use 
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VAT inspectors to enforce its 
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I t is eleven years ago today. 
that the Department of 1 Trade * 
and Industry appointed two 
“ppectors to investigate the 
Guinness takeover of Distillers. 
That we should have had to wait: 
until now to learn of'their* 
findings is almost as scandalous 
as the contents of their report 
While the City regulators will 
now be obliged to pore over die 
308 pages and appendices, the 
likelihood of. them taking any 
action-as a result is negligible: - 
The drive to put Ernest Saunders ■ 
and his cronies in toe rinrir was 
fuelled by political wQl but toe 
fiasco of three trials has long 
quelled that urge. 

The publication of the report has - 
generated headlines for this morn¬ 
ing but toe excitement will be 
short-lived, for toe lust for blood 
has evaporated. The Government 
has spelt art that it. w31 not be 
issuing proceedings as a result of 
the inspectors' findings and toe 
Securities and Futures Authority is 
hardly gung-ho to attack top City 
names for what they might have 
been doing in 1986. . 

And toe report makes dear that 
many of them were having a fine 
time, demonstrating total con¬ 
tempt for rules andcodes, and. 
occasionally, the law. The inspec¬ 
tors are sweeping in their criticism 
of toe Sguare MDe and speak of 
some of its inhabitants in tones of 
haughty distaste. They dearly did 
not warm to David Maybew. and 
come dose to impugning toe 
integrity of the hnootn old Etonian 
stockbroker. But toty do not give 


This Guinness has gone flat 


toe SFA any evidence that would 
provide than with the basis of a 
case against toe man who is now 
a mp CazGftQive partner. 

In shorty toe report provides 
fittje more than a riveting read 
and a snapshot of the City as it 
was. When share support opera- 
tions were commonplace and fhe 
. mutual badc-scraicning was as 
common as it is among any troop> 
of monkeys. If Guinness went 
one degree further in its share 
support operation, it was not 
necessarily in providing indem¬ 
nities to those who helped buoy 
up its share price but in putting 
mem in writing.. 

Yet there was. in theory, 
regulation that should have put. 
paid to the practices that were 
apparently so rife.-Where was 
the Takewer Panel when Argyll 
^ and Guinness were-waging war? 
The share pricemovements pro¬ 
vided ample evidence that some¬ 
thing was .amiss and a strong 
Panel should have been able to 
root out the cause. . 

There have since bem changes 
in City regulation and there wifi . 
be more with the advent of the 
Financial Services Authority- But 
ar a cost of more than £3 million, 
the DTI report has contributed 
nothing to preventing another 
Guinness scandal in toe inter- 



COMMENTARY 

by our City Editor 


voting decade. If these reports 
are to be anything ocher than 
indulgent journalistic exercises 
for mrounfams and lawyers, 
they need to be produced speed¬ 
ily with more erf an eye to content 
than style.. 

There are currently four DTI 


Mirror Group. The fete Robert 
Maxwell has no interest in toe 
outcome, but it will lose all 
relevance unless published soon. 

Brave Brown risks 
feminist backlash 

T he mdepeniient taxation re¬ 
forms passed in I990.were 
intended to bring to an end 
centuries of inequality for women 
within the tax system. Seven years 
later, Gordon Brown, supposedly 
a new man. appears to wish wives 
to return to the status of chattel. 
His significant other, Sarah Ma¬ 
caulay. should perhaps be paying 


attention to her friend's view on 
the position of husband and wife 
within marriage. 

The more well-heeled Labour 
supporters should also feel uneasy. 
Mr Brown could easily argue that 
independent taxation should be 
abolished since ft is flawed and 
certain anomalies do still exist 
within toe system. Although 
spouses are treated as separate 
entities, matrimony still has its 
fiscal advantages: gifts between 
spouses escape capital gains tax 
and estates pass free of inheritance 
tax. As he told us this week. Mr 
Brown is determined to root out 
tax avoidance. Getting rid of 
independent taxation would pro¬ 
vide him with the chance to outlaw 
what could be seen as inter-marital 
avoidance. 

But ending toe separate taxation 
of husband and wife would bring 
the Chancellor into direct conflict 
with 100 or more of his female 
colleagues in the Commons, let 
alone hosts of independent-mind¬ 
ed females outside the House of 


Comm o ns. The brave Chancellor 
may be prepared to court unpopu¬ 
larity as a way of ensuring that toe 
new-styte family tax credits go only 
to the most needy households but 
he will need to plot his course 
carefully. Changes cannot be 
made piecemeal and they should 
have some regard to toe mundane 
realities of family life. 

How is he to ensure that toe 
person who gets toe rax credit 
spends it on the family? There is 
also the issue of the married 
couple's allowance of £1,830 which, 
following reductions by successive 
Tory Chancellors, is worth just 
£274.50. This is something of a 
dilemma for Mr Brown. If he 
increases the allowance, then He 
would benefit toe rich as well as 
the poor. But abolition would 
destroy any pretensions to be the 
party of toe family. 

The Chancellor must be wary of 
toe dangers of venturing into toe 
territory between husband and 
wife. The Government has already 
demonstrated its enthusiasm for 


speaking first and considering toe 
consequences second, whether on 
such cum plicated topics as foreign 
income dividends or toe banning 
of tobacco sponsorship. Mistakes 
in certain areas are easily righted 
— just hand bade the cheque. Bui 
in fiscal matters, the ramifications 
of change need to be carefully 
thought through before any move 
is made. 

New York turns 
sour on the euro 

G ordon Brown may be 
surprised to find more 
fearsome critics of EMU 
in America than at home, if wily 
because their doubts cannot be 
put down to general Europhobia. 
Doubtless, economic elder states¬ 
men such as Hemy Kaufman 
and Martin Feldstein have had 
more contact with Britain's old 
free market internationalists 
than with new Labour’s eura- 
focused Jong-termists. Yet their 
fears are real. 

The Brownies have yet to 
grasp that what offers stability to 
some spells inflexibility to others. 
That hurts when the rules for 
stability are enshrined in institu¬ 
tions such as an independent 
monetary authority in Frankfurt 


or Threadneedle Street, lei alone 
toe Maastricht deficit rules. 

France and other euro-fans 
chose to endure needless years of 
low growth and high unemploy¬ 
ment to allow Germany a boost 
from annexing its eastern prov¬ 
inces. In the euro zone, there wiU 
be no choice. Hence the head- 
shaking from Americans who 


know that their civil war was not 
only about slavery. In practice, 
the worst threat to the euro zone 
may be its inability to de a l with a 
general recession, rather than 
from unrest or calls for secession 
in economies that are out of step 
with toe Rhein valley. 

Mr Brown's best argument for 
investing in Britain is that the 
UK will be able to watch the 
euro's first, most dangerous 
years from toe sidelines without 
suffering toe risks of permanent 
exclusion. The UK is in tune with 
US advice not to rush the euro, 
American investors please note. 

BAA humbug 

SIR Terence Conran’s recent 
attack on BAA in our letters 
column has brought forth a 
chorus of sympathy from fellow 
travellers who do not wish to 
spend their journeys pondering 
where to stuff the carrier bags. 
As the director of corporate 
affairs for BAA, Des Wilson's 
determination to defend his com¬ 
pany and attack the detractor 
shows an impressive disregard 
for the fashionable concept of 
customer relations. 


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RBS sorry for delays 
in Tesco account debut 


By Richard Miles 

BANKING CORRESPONDENT J 

ROYAL Bank of Scotland 
turned away a string of retail¬ 
ers before forming its joint 
venture with Tesco, toe UK’S 




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Dr George ■ Mathewson, 

* group chief executive of toe 
f RBS. took the unusual .step of 
apologising to customers 
whose applications for a Tesco 
savings account , bod beeni -. 
delayed because of adminis¬ 
trative troubles. Tgsco. has 
received 400,000 applications 
in five months. ' . 

The bank, which yesterday * 
reported higher than expected 
pre-tax profits of £760million, 
is understood to have held 
discussions with a number of 
companies that expressed an 
interest in entering the fiiian- . 
rial sendees market-—: 

While RBS remained tidtf- 
Epped about toe identity ofthe. 
retailers, toe trank d to disclose 
that it has written off £11 <: 
^million against its investment 
Qh Tesco Personal Finance, 
launched in July. 


Brewery 
drops its 
failures 

By Dominic Walsh 


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Lord Younger of Prestwick, left, chairman, and Bob Speics. 
finance director, reporting the improved results yesterday 


: Dr Mathewson said that he 
expected to see the first profits 
from; the bank's new: retail 
finance businesses coining 
through by the beginning of 
toe nuDenuruum. Iq total. 
RBS wrote off £27 mSlhm- 


against its investment in new 
retail financial businesses, in¬ 
cluding Tesco and more re¬ 
cently its partnership with 
Richard Branson to form Vir¬ 
gin One, a telephone-based 
hank that was launched last 


Plasterboard firm 
likely to shed 
100 workers in UK 



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AFTER failing to make an 
acceptable return on capital, 
Wolverhampton V & Dudley 
Breweries, the regional brew¬ 
er and pub operator, is to drop 
same of its pub concepts. . 

Ralph Ffedhty, finance di¬ 
rector, said , brands suih as 
Fast Eddie’s and Lazt .Word 
would be discontinued and toe 
focus would be the Milestone, 
Varsity and Poacher's Pocket 
concepts. • ' •• •-'... 

In toe year to September 28. 
return an investment iri.new^ 
built units was 11 per cent 
against a target of 15 per cent 
with some pubs faffing to 
make any return whatsoever'. 

Pre-tax profits ■ before 
exceptionals were, unc h an ged 
at £43.1 million on safes l0.4 
per cent better at £275.6 mil¬ 
lion. Earnings per. share, .ex¬ 
cluding exceptional were up 
3.1 per cent to 46J3p. A final of 
12-lp. to be paid an January 
30. makes lS.7p, up lOper cent 
The group is to seek share¬ 
holder approval to buy back 
14.99 per cent of its shares. 


By Adam Jones 


ABOUT 100 , UK staff are 
likely to be made redundant 
by BPB. the plasterbotod 
maker, as it tackles undaper- 
-formance at its paper division. 

- The drvisian, which em¬ 
ploys: 2,400 internationally, 
mainly supplies paper for the 
manufacture of plasterboard 
used in the buOdrag trade, its 
return , era sales fell from 8:9 
per bent In the first half of 
1996, to 33 per; cent in toe 
comparable period of 1997. . 

- BPB aims to shed 850 jobs 
by selling its rhfll.m Radcuffe, 
Manchester, as well as a. 
Dutch mil] already earmarked 
for disposal and by closing a 
divisional bead .office m 
Norfhwich, Cheshire. - 

Jean-Pierre Cuny ,. chief ex¬ 
ecutive, said that he hoped the' 
Radtdiffe jobs would, be re¬ 
tained in any sale, bur the bulk 
of toe mitidpated redundan¬ 
cies would be at North wich. 

In spite of a profits, fell 
Induced by toe strong pound. 


BPB raised its interim divi¬ 
dend 7 per cent yesterday to 
' highlight underlying growth. 

- Interim profits before rax 
fell'from £108.3 million in 
1996, when a £11.6 million 
: exceptional credit was record¬ 
ed. to E89 milli on. Mike Betts, 
a Goldman Sachs analyst, 
predicted full-year profits of 
£176 million. 

Mr Cuny said underlying 
profits would have been up 4 
. per cent at constant exchange 
rates. Actual underlying prof¬ 
its fell £7.9 million to £885 
million after a £12 million 
currency bit and an increased 
redundancy charge of £4.8 
million, up from £22 million. 

Mr Cuny said BPB was 
considering caking advantage 
of toe crises in the Far East as 
a cheap expansion opportuni¬ 
ty. BPB has no exposure there. 

An interim dividend of 3J3p 
per share will be paid on 
January 23 as a foreign in¬ 
come dividend. 


month. The investment in 
such ventures helped to lift 
operating expenses at toe 
bank by more than 17 per cent, 
to £1.55 billion. The group's 
income ratio edged up to 522 
per cent, from 50 per cent in 
die previous year, in spite of 
falling costs at toe UK bank. 

Dr Mathewson also ended 
speculation that the RBS was 
in merger talks with Abbey 
National. He made it dear 
that toe future of toe bank lay 
in joint ventures, such as its 
partnerships with Tesco and 
life insurer Scottish Widows. 

The chief executive did not 
rule out further acquisitions 
after its £630 million takeover 
of Birmingham Midshires 
Building Society in August, 
but stressed that prices were 
too high at present For the 
next 12 months, expansion was 
likely to come from organic 
growth, he said. 

RBS lifted its total dividend 
by 15 per cent to 2L4p via a 
final payout of 152p. The 
bank's shares rose 12p to 685p. 

Tempos; page 30 


Technology 
sector deals 
boost 3i 

By Richard Miles 

A BUOYANT market for 
management deals in the mid¬ 
cap and technology sectors 
helped to boost first-half pre¬ 
tax profits at 3i, the venture 
capitalist almost 14 per cent to 
£225.7 million. 

It said it had achieved a total 
return of E217.4 million, equiv¬ 
alent to 75 per cent on 
shareholder hinds, against 
£188.4 million for the same six 
months in 1996. This com¬ 
pares with a 12 per rent rise in 
toe FTSE small cap total re¬ 
turn index. 

Net asset value edged up 6.6 
per cent to 518p as sharehold¬ 
ers’ funds exceeded £3 billion 
for the first time. During the 
period, 3i invested £538.4 mil¬ 
lion, the bulk placed in 342 UK 
businesses. 

Brian Lartnmbe. chief exec¬ 
utive, said he was considering 
backing companies on toe Al¬ 
ternative Investment Market 
in toe wake of falling share 
prices. He added that 3i had 
invested £52 million in 44 bus¬ 
inesses in continental Europe. 


Direct Line 
profit rises 
to £36m 

DIRECT LINE, toe insur¬ 
ance subsidiary of Royal 
Bank of Scotland, has lifted 
full-year pretax profits 37 
per cent to £36 million, from 
the 1996 figure of £265 mil¬ 
lion. bur at the cost of losing 
100,000 motor customers 
(Marianne Corphey writes). 

The telephone insurer 
provides cover for 21 mil¬ 
lion private motorists — toe 
largest number for a single 
insurer in toe UK. Direct 
line said it bad succeeded 
in fusing motor rates in 
selective areas. However, 
toe industry is experiencing 
intense competition. 

RBS said that unless mo¬ 
tor insurance premiums 
rose, weaker participants 
would be forced to leave toe 
market Like other motor 
insurers. Direct Line has 
suffered from the rising cost 
of personal injury claims. 


Troubled M&G 
falls further 


By Gavin Lumsden 


M&G. the troubled fund man¬ 
agement group, yesterday in¬ 
sisted that it is on the road to 
recovery in spite of results 
showing a further fall in the 
company's share of the private 
investment market. 

Net sales -of the company's 
unit trusts and investment 
trusts, which have been blight¬ 
ed by poor performance, fell 
£220 million into the red as 
investors redeemed £779 mil¬ 
lion of holdings, E254 million 
more than last year. 

Funds under management 
rose by 16 per cent, to £18.1 
billion, way behind the 23 per 
cent growth in toe FTSE all¬ 
share index. 

Michael McLintock, the 
group chief executive, who 
joined in February, refused to 
comment on speculation that 
M&G had been in talks with 
.potential bidders, such as Hali¬ 
fax, and denied that, he had 


been given nine more months 
to turn tlie company round. 

A 4 per cent rise in pre-tax 
profits, to £67.4 million, disap¬ 
pointed analysts, who had 
expected £70 million. The 
share price fell by Up, to 
£1455, ending a rise of more 
than E3 in the past month. 

Retail figures showed that 
M&GY share of toe vital Flip 
market had fallen from 7.4 per 
cent to 4.1 per cent, in spite of 
spending £2 million in toe 
spring on a television advertis¬ 
ing campaign featuring Lord 
Lawson of Blaby, toe former 
Chancellor. Overall market¬ 
ing expenditure rose by £8 mil¬ 
lion. to £462 million, as M&G 
stepped up the promotion of 
low-cost funds via independ¬ 
ent financial advisers. 

A final dividend of 24p 
makes 40p, up II per cent 

Tempos page 30 


Berisford 
best for 
eight years 

By Fraser Nelson 

BERISFORD. rhe Magnet 
Dry and kitchens group, 
returned its strongest results 
for eight years yesterday after 
staging a full recovery from 
the strike at its Darlington 
factory and production prob¬ 
lems in the US. 

The boom in Britain's DIY 
market helped the company to 
lift profits from £255 million 
to £37 million before tax and 
exceptionals in the year to 
September 30. 

A range of new kitchens 
helped Magnet to deliver un¬ 
derlying sales growth of 15 per 
cent, beating 10 per cent 
growth in toe market. In¬ 
creased share of the wood¬ 
work market saw its joinery 
division advance 18 per cent 
while the plastic double-glazed 
windows division grew 20 per 
cent. 

A 45p final dividend, due on 
January 1, makes 65p (45p). 



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American news lifts 
Johnson Matthey price 


By Adam Jones 


SHARES in Johnson Mal- 
toey leapt 6 per cent to 553p on 
excitement over its new US 
sctoucondurtor-padcagnig fac¬ 
tory and reassuring com¬ 
ments about exposure to 
Asian volatility. A restructur¬ 
ing of a ceramics joint venture 
will lead to toe loss of more 
than 50 jobs in Stoke, 
however. 

The metals and engineering 
group reported Interim pre- 
taxprofits of £582 million, a 
rise of 14 pa- cent Electron) c- 
nraterials division profits 
were up 50 per cent to £18 
million. David Davies, chair¬ 
man, said its semiconductor 
packaging plant in Wiscon¬ 
sin, has readhed its target of 


producing a million units a 
month. He said foil capacity 
of about 15 million a month 
should be reached by March. 

Johnson Matthey said there 
was no fallout from the Far 
East yet A slight dip in 
Japanese demand for plati¬ 
num was more than matched 
by increases from China. 

In an overhaul of the 
underperforming ceramics 
joint venture with Cookson. 
peripheral businesses are to 
be sold and the decorative 
ceramics operation is to be 
stream lined. One hundred 
jobs wm be lost international¬ 
ly. The interim dividend in¬ 
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Vodafone takeover talk 
lifts shares to new high 


THE saying that price tells all 
is one often quoted by City 
brokers, in which case we 
should see a bid any day now 
for Vodafone. Britain's big- 
pest mobile phone operator. 

The price dimbed a further 
I3p to an all-time high of 394p 

— stretching its lead during 
the past couple of weeks to 47p 

— amid further heavy turn¬ 
over that saw almost eight 
million shares change hands. 
The group now commands a 
price tag of £ 1-2 billion. 

There has been talk for 
some weeks about a bid from 
American Telephone & Tele¬ 
graph. which is said to be 
anxious to gain a toehold in 
the European mobile phone 
market Vodafone may prove 
to be the ideal vehicle, unlike 
Cellnet, its nearest rival 
owned jointly by BT. down 
6 l 4 pat 456 p 1 :. and S coin cor. 
up F'ap at 275p. Other names 
may also be in the frame. 
Brokers say Lehman Broth¬ 
ers, the US securities firm, has 
been a big buyer of the stock. 

A Few weeks ago Vodafone, 
under Chris Gent, chief execu¬ 
tive. announced a series of 
price cuts in an attempt to 
stoke up the competitive pres¬ 
sures for its rivals. Brokers say 
the recent rise appears to be 
discounting a lot 

Share prices generally en¬ 
joyed an early mark-up with 
the help of another positive 
performance overnight in To¬ 
kyo. But with Wall Street 
closed for the Thanksgiving 
Day celebrations, prices in 
London failed'to hold on to 
their early lead and the FTSE 
100 index dosed 2L2 down at 
4.889.0. Turnover was on the 
low side, with 689 million 
shares traded, and this was 
swollen by HO million shares 
traded in Red Usd after the 
increased terms from Lafarge. 
Redland firmed 2'zp to 342p. 
unperturbed by a Govern¬ 
ment call to the European 
Commission to refer part of 
the £ 1.8 billion bid to the 
Monopolies and Mergers 
Commission. 

British Aerospace dimbed 
36p to £16-28 after the German 
Government finally gave the 
go-ahead to the £40 billion 
European lighter project. BAe 
will supply the wings and part 
of the fuselage. Other benefi¬ 
ciaries indude Rolls-Royce. 
2p easier at 234p, which will 
help to make the engines and 
GEC, 3 ' 4 p cheaper at 393 1 2p, 
involved in supplying the air¬ 
craft’s electronic systems. BAe 
is also expected to benefit soon 
from a Government decision 



Chris Gent, of Vodafone, a further 13p higher at 394p 


to allow foreign share owner¬ 
ship to rise from 29.9 per cent 
to around 40 per cent. 

The falling oil price is likely 
to make life difficult for the ofi 
companies. But Shell, down 
6 p at 4I2p, also had to contend 
with the suggestion from BZW 
that dients should switch into 
rival BP. 4p better at 8l2p. 

Zeneca continued to make 
headway with a rise of 69p to 
£18.96 as Dresdner Kleimvort 


Benson told dients to switch 
out of Glaxo Weflcome. 2p 
lighter at £13.78. 

Earlier this week Zomig, 
Zeneca's migraine pill was 
approved by the US Food and 
Drug Administration. Word is 
the group is now looking for a 
partner in the US with which 
to market the drug. Zeneca 
calculates that 23 million 
Americans suffer from mi¬ 
graine and that the market for 



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THERE was a pause for 
breath among the life as¬ 
surance companies having 
seen their share prices race 
ahead sharply this week on 
the back of a flurry of 
revived bid speculation. 
Takeover favourite London 
& Manchester retreated I3p 
to 50lp. while falls were 
also recorded in Legal & 
General, lOp to 5G8p, Nor¬ 
wich Union, Sp to 363p, and 
Prudential Corporation. 5p 
to658p. 

But this lull in activity is 
likely to prove short-lived. 
David Hudson at Credit 
Lyonnais Laing says: " We 
know the banks and build¬ 


ing societies are desperate 
to snap-up tiie life assur¬ 
ers.'' But he gives wanting 
that any potential bidder 
will have to pay through 
the nose for the business. 

“Take Legal&General as 
an example, the proper 
price to pay for the com¬ 
pany is around 420p. But if 
anyone wants to bid, they 
are going to haw to pay 
over SOOp and this week 
L&G directors have been 
selling stock." 

Hudson says the same 
can be said of the rest of tire 
sector. “They are all over¬ 
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Zomig could be worth £15 
billion within the next few 
years. 

Meanwhile. British 
Biotech advanced 7‘ap to 
lH^p, fuelled by daims that 
Zeneca is poised to make a bid. 
British Biotech currently car¬ 
ries a price tag of £725 million. 

HQIsdcnvn fell 8p to J57p as 
several brokers downgraded 
their profit forecasts from £165 
million to £158 million. The 
move has been blamed an 
weakening food prices. But 
Fairview. its housebuilding 
arm, continues to do well as 
does ifs furniture business. 

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lifted Neepsend 8 ’zp to 39 ] 2p. 
The group is also poised to sell 
a piece of land for £1 million 
currently on the books at 
£150,000. But tiie engineer 
warned shareholders that fi¬ 
nal profits would fall short of 
last year's £1.61 million. 

Courtaulds rose 6 ] 2 p to 
276 ! 2 p after HSBC James 
Capel, the broker, made some 
encouraging noises and set a 
target price for the shares of 
385p. It follows dose on the 
heels of the group's acquisi¬ 
tion of a German protective 
coatings business. 

Tetra Holdings made an 
encouraging debut after a 
placing of shares by 14SBC 
James Capel at 160p. The 
computer software specialist 
saw its price touch a peak of 
172 l 2p before settling at 17lp, a 
premium of Up. 

Also making its debut was 
Seascope Shipping, which en¬ 
joyed a modest premium after 
a placing by Bell Lawrie 
White, the broker, at 250p. The 
shares dosed 5p dearer at 
255p. 

□ GILT-EDGED. Bond 
prices in London drifted low¬ 
er, along with other European 
markets. The continuing rally 
in Japan overnight prompted 
a move away from fixed 
interest back into equities. 

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also kept investors sidelined 
for much of tiie day. They 
await testimony from Eddie 
George, Governor of the Bank 
of England, to the Treasury 
select committee. 

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traded £?m lower at £ 118 , 9 3 a 
in moderate trading. 

In longs Treasury 8 per cent 
2021 fell £’32 to £I 18 27 j 2 while 
among shorter dated issues 
Treasury 7 per cent 2002 was 
E'a lower at ElOO^aa. 

□ NEW YORK: Wall Street 
was dosed for Thanksgiving. 



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Stand Chart .67Sp (-22p) 

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Mixed Royal message 

ROYAL Bank of Scotland comfortably beat Virgin One, SS 

the expectations of the City yesterday to report P ai ? 1 ^ p ^?^i^ d er Smore cheaply 
a 9 per cent increase in pr&-tax profits. Even raSblishnwrit 

Direct Line, the tdephone^ased insurance and quiddy 

arm founded by Peter Wood, appears to have of a tradition^ brandt i^wor^ abaucl he 
made a return to farm, chipping in £36 But douteah^ysurfo' *™ds5 

million towards a total of £760 million. • haitits ability to K’Pf . ^ unusual 

However, the results will only serve to such partnerships. to* mew 

heighten speculation about the bank's future 
in a sector where consolidation appears to 400,000 appbeants 


accelerate almost daily. George Mathewson. 
tine plain-speaking group chief executive, did 
his best to dispel the rumours, shooting down 
recent reports that RBS had begun merger 
talK with Abbey National 
Dr Mathewson believes the bank's future 
lies in partnerships with retailers, such as the 
joint venture with Tesco and, more rec ently, 
the tie-up with Richard Branson, to form 


gthy delays Yesterday. 
Dr Mathewson apologised for the mtxnup, 
claiming the bank was a wetun af nsjwn 
success. Whether Mr Branson would sand 
for such a publicity disaster * doubtful: 
remember how quidk he was to drop 
Union in favour of Australian insurer AMr 
as the backer of Virgin Direct during ns early 
days. The shares look an unexciting prospect. 


M&G 

POORER than expected re¬ 
sults sent M&G’s shares 
down Up yesterday, a 
salutary reminder of what 
will happen if all the talk 
about talks with the Halifax 
proves untrue. In the past 
month, the beleaguered fund 
manager’s stock has risen 
nearly E3 on the back of bid 
speculation. Without a bid its 
true value is probably nearer 
£13, a good I50p below its 
current price. 

Michael Mclintock. chief 
executive; tried to play on 
fears that M&G-was overval¬ 
ued when he ingenuously 
suggested such an “unto¬ 
ward. movement” would 
have merited an announce¬ 
ment under the City's take¬ 
over and merger rules if 
talks were under way. There 
had been no such statement 

Unfortunately, the takeover 
rules refer to one-day move¬ 


ments in share prices, not 
weeks of steady rise. Share¬ 
holders can be pretty sure 
that talks are indeed on. 
Halifax is one of several big 
players with money looking 
to expand into fund manage¬ 
ment while M&G is one of 
the ever dwindling band of 
independent managers with 
nowhere to go. Of course 
shareholders have got used 


to M&G’s lack of credibility. 
The result was a near halv¬ 
ing of M&G’s share in the 
Pep market. 

M&G insists its fund re¬ 
view has revived its fortunes. 
However, dwindling fee in¬ 
come, increased expense and 
a flawed brand image mean 
the only reason to buy M&G 
is if you think someone is 
going to bid. 


PEPPED UP BY THE HALIFAX 



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£12 
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1995 


1997 


Berisford 

POOR old Berisford. It has 
delivered a threefold earn¬ 
ing^ jump, sorted out its US 
division and is now dangling 
a fat £475 million in tax 
credits. Yet its shares still 
languish at 181p — only 10.4 
times forecast earnings. 

The City, it seems, has not 
forgotten tiie wilderness 
years, when the company 
delivered nothing but misery 
to shareholders. Many fed 
that Alan Bowkett chief exec¬ 
utive. should not be forgiven 
until Berisford has spent as 
many years in the black as it 
did in the red. 

But yesterday's results 
show few signs of the bad old 
days. Its Darlington factory, 
only last year tiie site of a 
costly industrial dispute, is 
new reporting productivity 
up .15 per cent. Costs in 
Welbflt its US division, 
which still generates three 
fifths of company sales, have 
dropped sharply, leaving the 
whole group pretty dose to a 
full recovery and oh trade to 


deliver IS per cent profit 
growth this year. Of course, 
UK interest rate rises could 
hold back current growth in 
demand for kitchens and 
other consumer durables. Its 
sector is not the shiniest in 
the market, but these are 
topics beyond the company's 
control. 

The riiares look cheap at 
tire current levels, especially 
- given the tax losses. And until 
they get,nearer to 200p, keep 
an buying. 

Euromoney 

THE directors of 
Euromoney, which knows a 
thing or. two about informa¬ 
tion delivery, roust be jacking 
themselves for inducting the 
last sentence in yesterday's 
results that said the turmoil 
in Asian markets could affect 
them in the next six months. 
Hie market read it as a prof¬ 
its warning, and Euromopey 
found itself boasting to an in¬ 
visible audience that it had 
significantly outstripped 
market forecasts. The fact is 


that EuwmoneYs ES5 million 
acquisition of Institutional 
Investor in the US has further 
protected it from Asian 
storms, with trading in the 
Far East now bringing in less 
titan a third of all turnover. 

However, Asia could give it 
headaches in other ways, es¬ 
pecially if the band market 
deteriorates, taking attention 
away from the plethora of 
magazines it publishes for 
that sector. Aside from that, 
the business still looks 
strong, with its ability to gen¬ 
erate cash already reducing 
the £68 million of debt it 
raised to buy Institutional 
Investor: 

With the company* shares 
now changing hands ar 
1685p. down significantly 
. from 1832*2? in October, they 
should look attractive, espe¬ 
cially in a sector that tradi¬ 
tionally trades on a 
premium. But with senti¬ 
ment likely to deteriorate as 
the market waits for a less 
healthy set of final-year re¬ 
sults, they are probably best 
avoided. 






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anta Gordon in conflict 
with Ebenezer Brown 


The Treasury’s 
view of 
: inflation is 
sharply at 
odds with that 
oftheBank 


HISTORY SUGGE5F5 THE GROWTH ASSUMPTIONS ARE TOO PESSIMISTIC 

historical trends in output (average growth over peak- to- peak cycles) 



f onion Brown must 

• • ^SntT I have been delighted 

.^iirS? VJ his mini-Budget 
' 7^' ni °isnt Nothing could be more conge- 

• • : ■ ft xniC nal to the spin doctors, espe- 
‘‘u dally in a week of rebellions 

i ru r - .. k over cuts in welfare benefits 

1 for the disabled and single 

■; parents, than cartoons of a 
, jolly Chancellor in a Santa hat, 

„*' • ' t backed up by TV dips of 

• -i children in playgroups and 

pensioners in front of gas fires. 
Most im porta n tly, this 
All oivialisation was remarkably 
f\K i successful in distracting alten- 
f V I non from the mim-Budgeft 
\ ^IMI .. main point. This was, as 

» usual to be found in the small 
print of the Budget documents 
: relating to the Treasury's fiscal 
forecasts and economic as- 
-t sumptions, was for more im- 

- portant than ragbag of minor 
-dianges in taxation and wel¬ 
fare policy which-dominated 

“ his speech. Before going on to 
( discuss these, me of the spend- 
' f ing measures does deserve 

• special attention; die decision 
to throw away £400 million 

' (enough to finance all the 
-.-■I disputed benefits for single 
^parents) on an indiscriminate 
• ■- r- '■ “Christraw heating" handout 
<x'~ to all pensioners, regardless of 
: ^ their means. It is hard to 

.. -'Z. improve the comment of An- 
• jF drew DHnot, director of the 
Institute for FiscaL Already, he 
noted, the Government bad 
turned its new autumn pre- 
Budget report “into just 
another occasion each year 
' r when the Chancellor, feds 
obliged to hand oof brightly 
coloured lollipops to'MPs and 
the popular press”. . . 

- / Now let. us turn fo fee rriepre 

serious issues. IXto, in partidf-' 
' ‘ p ; lar, are worth noting. Erst, the 

Chancellor’s assumptions 
about the economy's long-term 

E potential and about, 
nest sustainable rate of 
_ loyment are both very, 
pessimistic. Secondly, even on 
the basis of IheTreasuiys very 
■ cautious assumptions about 

grawtii and employment, a 
dramatic reduction in. public 

___ borrowing appears to be on 

ruetrt the cards in the years leading 

Hl-Vv* _, ^ up to the next election — a 

reduction which the Chancel¬ 
lor preferred to gloss over in 
r his presentation. 

Fbcusing first on die eco¬ 
nomic assumptions, the Trea¬ 
sury believes -that. Britain’s 
long-term sustainable growth 
rate is only 225 per cent, 
despite the fact that growth 
has averaged 25 per cent in 
the 50 years since 1947 and 
1 that the average growth rale in 

* the period of economic history 
most closely comparable to the 
present one — the 1950s and 



_* 


.% par annum 


BRITAIN’S INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE NOW COMPARES WELL WITH OTHER COUNTRIES 
Business investment (1982-1993) 


% of GDP. 
current poses 

r- 20 


i West Germany 1 

PUBLIC FINANCES ARE EXTREMELY STRONG 
Cyclically- adjusted budget deficits 


% of GDP 

i- 6 


General Gov ernmen t 
Financial Deficit I 


Range of typical mm Ink 
past project i o n! 



2000-01 


1960s was over 3 per cent To 
justify its pessimism about the 
underlying rate of productivity 
growth in the British econo¬ 
my, die Treasury has to go all 
the way back to the mid-I9th 
century. Only thus can it 
produce a slice of economic 
mstory bad enough to gener¬ 
ate an average growth rate of 
22S per cent (see top chart). 
Unfortunately the Treasury 
does not explain what rele¬ 
vance the age of the steam- 
driven handioems might have 
to contemporary events. 

The Treasury also assumes 
that the level of capacity use ; 
and of ‘ unemployment at- - 
'tainitd byfoie economy today 
are die best that can be 
sustained without forcing in¬ 
flation to accelerate. 

Despite this slowdown, 
which would impty unemploy¬ 
ment rising again from the 
middle of next year, the Trea¬ 
sury believes that inflation will 
accelerate over the next 12 
months. This disquieting fore¬ 
cast is sharply at odds with the 
view of the Bank of England, 
which this month predicted 
that inflation would decline 
through next year. It seems to 
take no account of events in 
Asia and the deflationary pres¬ 
sures even in the strong Amer¬ 
ican economy. The Treasury’s 
anxiety about inflation also 
sits oddly with its assumption 
that the pound will remain at 
about its present level 
throughout next year. If the 
Treasury is right, then heaven 
forfend what might happen to 
inflation should the pound fill 
sharply, as the ChanceUor and 
the Governor of the Bank of 


England until recently be¬ 
lieved that it should. 

All this alarm about infla¬ 
tion comes bade to the Trea¬ 
sury’s assumption that the 
economy has already hit its 
capacity limits and thafl unem¬ 
ployment has fallen to its 
lowest sustainable rale. Whaf 
the . Treasury does not point 
out however, is that equally 
“authoritative" studies were 
suggesting three years ago 
that the NAIRU was 9 per cent 
or even higher — or that in 
America estimates of this sup¬ 
posedly stable level of unem¬ 
ployment have declined year 
by' year from more than 8 per 
cent to around 4 per cent 
today. There are. of course, 
plenty of econometric studies 
which claim to show that the 
lowest sustainable rate of un¬ 
employment — also known as 
the “Non Accelerating Infla¬ 
tion. Rate of Unemployment" 
or NAIRU — happens to be 
equal to the present unemploy¬ 
ment rate, which the Treasury 
admits to be nearer 7 per cent, 
rather than the 5.1 per cent 
suggested by official figures. 


A s a result the Trea¬ 
sury is forecasting a 
sharp slowdown in 
economic growth, 
from 3.5 per cent this year to 
between 225 and Z75per cent 
in 1998 and 1.5 to 2 per cent in 
1999. 

The most reasonable infer¬ 
ence to draw from the econo¬ 
mists’ abysmal record in 
estimating thus supposedly 
rock-bottom level of unem¬ 
ployment, is that the NAIRU, 
if it exists at alL can only be 


Mirror image 


HELEN LIDDELL. Econom¬ 
ic Secretary to the Treasury, 
was at the National Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Children the other day. 
Stalin's granny, as she is 
known to the pensions indus¬ 
try bosses, was giving a speech 

on pensions reform. Nothing 
like getting to than early, is 
there? But I have been 
forwarded a resume of her 
career, as provided to the 
NSPCC by tiie Treasury to. 
remind everyone who the 
vguest speaker was. “Heim 
-Liddell was formerly at the 
Scottish Daily Record and 
took part in the successful 


flotation of Mirror Group 
Newspapers,** it says. 
I suppose that's bine way of 
putting h. Alternatively. “ Hel¬ 
en Liddell was one of themany 
sycophants who surrounded 
the late Robert Maxwell, took 
foe Maxwell shilling and 
crawled largely unscathed 
from the wreckage" might 
have done just as wetL Quite a 
few of those around. I.still 
remember the day Peter Jay 
tried to bully me into with¬ 
drawing something I wrote 
-about turn while he was part 
of the same entourage. But we 
mustn't reopen old wounds, 
inust we? 



IZLLl 




. m 


“Dear Sir, ini 
your letter of I 


mWHILEI have every sympa¬ 
thy fdr the employees of White 
. Knight and three associated 
businesses w here the DTI has 
just put in the official receiver, 
we am:take some slight com¬ 
fort from the collapse. White 
Knight and Sykes Corporate 
Recovery “provide insolvency 
advisory and related services 
to businesses in financial diffi- 
.culty, says the Dll. The other 
two “provide debt avoidance 
and related services". Until, 
they became casualties, l must 
assume, of the current eco¬ 
nomic boom, 

Man of steel 

MIKE-GRANT,- head of the 


Treasury team at Eurotunnel 
and the man who toured the 
globe talking to all those 
banks, has tolo the company 
he is leaving to do a three- 
month senior management 
course at Harvard. He has de¬ 
cided that the final adoption of 
foe debt restructuring plan is a 
good time to make the break. 
He has no job to go to but will 
surely not be short of offers. 
Sir Alastair Morton, former 
chairman at Eurotunnel and 
not a man easily pleased, re¬ 
ferred to Grant thus at Mor¬ 
ton's last results briefing a 
year ago: “Mike Grant has a 
backbone and a heart of steeL" 


Radio ga-ga 

A SPLENDID innovation at 
the Priory Hotel in Bath, 
owned by Andrew Brown- 
sword, the publicity-shy badeer 


established by a process of 
trial and error. Only fay allow¬ 
ing the economy to keep grow¬ 
ing and by encouraging unem¬ 
ployment to keep telling, will 
we ever find out hew many 
people can be put back to work 
before inflation begins to ac¬ 
celerate. This is exactly the 
experiment which foe Fed has 
beai conducting in America 
for the past five years. The 
outcome, so far, has been die 
an unemployment rate of 45 
per cent combined with die 
lowest annual inflatioi rate 
since 1965. Given the paucity 
of evidence to bade up foe 
pessimism about inflation, un¬ 
employment and growth, it is 
natural to ask what could be 
motivating the Chancellor to 
be so grim. One possible 
answer leads to the remark¬ 
able prospects for public fi¬ 
nances. 

Even under its gloomy eco¬ 
nomic assumptions, the Trea¬ 
sury forecasts that the General 
Government Financial Deficit 
(a more accurate measure of 
deficits than the traditional 
PSBR) will disappear by 
1999/2000 and will be replaced 
by a huge surplus in 2001/02, 
die last year of the present 
parliament. The size of this 
surplus depends on what deci¬ 
sions are made in the coming 
years on pbulc spending. In 
the unlikely event that the new 
Government stuck, even be¬ 
yond 1999, to the extremely 
tight long-range spending 
plans inherited from the To¬ 
ries, the surplus would be 2.4 
per cent of GDP, equivalent to 
E2Q billion in today^ money. If 
spending reverted to the 1.5 


of Bath rugby football dub 
who made a reported £170 mil¬ 
lion fortune from selling his 
greetings card firm. In every 
room the Priory has genuine 
old-fashioned 1930s and 1940s 
wireless sets, those old brown 
bakelite jobs that a few read¬ 
ers may remember from the 
days before the Japanese ruled 
foe consumer electronics in¬ 
dustry. But the sets have been 
carefully customised so none 
can receive Mr Branson's Vir¬ 
gin FM service. Brownsword, 
it seems, cannot abide Chris 
Evans, foe carrot-haired yob 
who does a comic turn on Vir¬ 
gin every morning. 


•A WHILE back, Evans, the 
women's clothing retailer 
specialising in the larger fig¬ 
ure, started an on-line mail 
order system, allowing cus¬ 
tomers to avoid the embar¬ 
rassment of actually going 
into the shops and picking up 
their sae 18s. The company 
seems to have tapped into a 
hidden market. Its research 
suggests most sales are to 
transvestites. 


Tideysum 

THE SUM of £2 million has 
been handed over by Associat¬ 
ed British Foods to foe director 
responsible for foe sale of its 
Irish supermarkets in May. 
Donald Tldey retired in June 
and has departed with this re- 
■ward for his “exceptional" ser¬ 
vice, according to the 
accounts. The sale booked a 



ANALYSIS 31 



Airport users want high-quality shops 


per cent real average growth 
rate of foe past 20 years, the 
surplus would be only slightly 
smaller, at 1.6 per cent of 
GDP. And even if real public 
spending exapnded by 225 per 
cent annually, in line with the 
economy's supposed trend 
growth rate, there would still 
be a surplus equivalent to 0.9 
per cent of GDP — and rising 
in future years. 

Imagine now what would 
happen if foe economy actual¬ 
ly grew faster than 225 per 
cent and if unemployment 
continued falling. The Trea¬ 
sury coffers, would be over¬ 
flowing from 1999 onwards. 
There would be scope for 
massive spending bonanzas 
and tax giveaways just before 
foe next election. This is a 
prospect which the Chancellor 
and tiie Prime Minister must 
certainly relish, but they have 
to keep it quiet The last tiling 
they want is to arouse prema¬ 
ture expectations — or to 
admit that the country's as- 
toundingly strong public fi¬ 
nances were actuzdfy inherited 
from the Tories. Far better to 
create the impression that all 
the extra money has been 
conjured up by the good 
stewardship of the Labour 
government — and then to 
surprise the voters with some 
really big lollipops just before 
the election. As for the dis¬ 
abled, the single parents, the 
universities, the hospitals and 
schools and all the other 
deserving supplicants to foe 
Treasury — they will just have 
to suffer for a few more years 
for a more convenient paint in 
the electoral cycle. 


£420 million profit for ABF, so 
perhaps shareholders should 
consider it money well spent, 
as Tidey was responsible for 
the growth of foe chain before 
it was sold to Tesco. But some 
in the City believe there is 
more to the award than this. 

TSdey became briefly fam¬ 
ous when he was kidnapped 
by the IRA in the early 1980s 
and freed after a gun battle. 
He showed remarkable cour¬ 
age during his ordeal, and 
great resilience thereafter. 
Some wonder if foe money 
was not, at least in part, ABF 
chairman Garry Weston's 
way of paying a tribute. Alas, 
Weston is notoriously secre¬ 
tive, and ABF was not return¬ 
ing calls yesterday. 

Martin Waller 


From the Director of 
Corporate and Public 
Affairs of BAA 

Sir. Sir Terence Conran has 
used fetter columns of newspa¬ 
pers for some time to cam¬ 
paign about retailing at 
Heathrow, steadfastly refus¬ 
ing to acknowledge or accept 
the following facts: 

First, we regularly interview 
hundreds of thousands of 
passengers to establish their 
views and needs; 90 per cent 
say they warn to see high- 
quality shopping facilities at 
airports. Indeed, they want 
more. 

Secondly, it is absurd to 
suggest that airpons are really 
out-of-town shopping centres. 
The maximum space devoted 
to retail at any of our airpons 
is 12 per cent. Of 55J388 people 
recently interviewed at Heath¬ 
row, only 89 were there purely 
to shop. And, frankly, they 
were misguided, because they 
could shop only landslide, 
where inevitably there’s a 
more limited range of shops 
than they could fold in their 
local high street. 

Thirdly, it is equally absurd 
to suggest that foe taxpayer 
subsidises BAA via duty-free. 
The opposite is foe case. It is 
the retailing that underpins 
the £1.5 million BAA spends 
every day providing this coun¬ 
try with its airport infrastruc¬ 
ture; in no other country in the 
world is this level of infra¬ 
structure provided to foe coun- 

Duty-bound to point 
out Heathrow chaos 

From Ms Jayne Barnard 
Sir. I had to laugh when Des 
Wilson, speaking on behalf of 
BAA. claimed last week that 
his organisation had been 
working hard to create more 
retailing, rather than less cha¬ 
os, at international airports 
because that is "what airport 
customers want". 

I have exited the UK twice in 
the last six weeks, each time 
folly intending to purchase 
duty-free gifts, instead, 
because of the lack of queue- 
control and other evidence of 
mismanagement at Heath¬ 
row, I found myself with only 
minutes to spare before depar¬ 
ture. I never spent a cent. 1 
must question whether this is 
what airport customers — let 
alone retailers — are seeking. 
Yours sincerely. 

JAYNE BARNARD, 

42 Eton Avenue, 

London NW3. 
<jwbarn@facstaff.wm.edu. 


try free of charge. In addition. 
BAA is worth more than £500 
million to the Exchequer via 
taxes of various kinds, VAT, 
airport duty, etc — a huge 
contribution. 

Finally, Sir Terence ques¬ 
tions our prices. Only a year 
back the Monopolies and 
Mergers Commission investi¬ 
gated BAA's retailing and 
concluded: "BAA has ensured 
that prices are no higher than 
in high street outlets, and has 
increased choice, policies 
which, as shown in BAA'S 
quality service monitor, are 
reflected in passengers’ per¬ 
ception of genuinely good 
value for money. The general 
impression from this evidence 
is that passengers find the 
experience of passing through 
the three South East airports 
more enjoyable than was pre¬ 
viously the case." 

(1 don't know whether Sir 
Terence drinks Bells Whisky, 
but he would have paid £17.10 
for a litre in the high street last 
week and obtained one at 
Terminal 1 for £820). 

Sir Terence's notoriety en¬ 
sures he obtains publicity for 
his opinions; let's hope foe 
facts will receive equal 
attention. 

Yours faithfully. 

DES WILSON. 

Director of Corporate and 
Public Affairs, 

BAA, 

Corporate Office, 

130 Wilton Road. SW1. 


Prices charged by 
tax-free stores 
appear too high 

From Mr Ken Graham 
Sir, Does the arrogance of 
Des Wilson, commenting on 
behalf of BAA reflect the 
attitude of the company to its 
customers, and taiqjayers? 

Regardless of Sir Terence 
Conran’s motives and Mr 
Wilson's personal opinion of 
Sir Terence, I believe that Sir 
Terence’s views are shared 
by many travellers such as 
myself. 

I have long been appalled 
at the prices charged by "tax- 
free" stores, for goods which 
are sold at a slight discount to 
high street prices, and which, 
in no way reflect the saving 
made as a result of the 
absence of tax. 

This is particularly illus¬ 
trated in restaurants and 
bars at BAA sites, where the 
prices charged are often 
higher than those for identi¬ 
cal products sold outside the 
airport, despite the absence 
of tax. 

Mr Wilson should take 
note; that Sir Terence certain¬ 
ly does speak for many 
passengers. 

Yours faithfully, 

KEN GRAHAM. 

20 Kingston Avenue, 

Stony Stratford, 

Milton Keynes, 

Buckinghamshire. 

ken.graham@dial.pipex.com 


Benefits of abolishing BAA’s duty-free shops 


From Mr Michael Boatman 
Sir. As a frequent business 
traveller to the US and 
Europe, who passes through 
BAA terminals up to 50 times 
a year, I hasten to lend 
support to the comments of Sir 
Terence Conran (The Times. 
November 20). 

My hope is dial duty-frees 
will be abolished by 1999 
despite the current campaigns 
being waged by BAA and 
some airlines. I see the effects 
as wholly beneficial. There 
will be fewer shops in foe 
departure lounges so more 
space for passengers to relax 
and much less congestion 
when fhey try to reach depar¬ 
ture gates. Cabin baggage on 
European flights will reduce 
by 30 to 50 per cent, there will 
be space in the lockers and less 
foe! consumed. With less 
money for BAA from retail 
franchises we can expect a 
hefty increase, perhaps £10 
per ticket, in airport taxes. It 
will hardly break the bank for 


business trips but may reduce 
domestic and charter flights. 

Fewer flights, especially 
from Heathrow, should be a 
surer route to reducing con¬ 
gestion on approadi roads 
than the high-speed rail link 
that was emasculated when 
the cross-rail scheme was 
cancelled. In addition, we all 
benefit from closure of a tax 
loophole, which is incompati¬ 
ble with the concept of "a 
single marker. 

Should anyone doubt that 
duty-free prices are a rip-off, 1 
suggest they take a walk in 
Gibraltar town. Ordinary re¬ 
tailers sell whisky as low as £2 
per standard bottle and even 
quality brands are bdow £6 
per litre, around 50 per cent of 
BAA's “duty-free", “profit-in¬ 
tensive" prices. 

Yours faithfully, 

MICHAEL BOATMAN 
Boatman Consulting, 

15 Ringwood Avenue, 

Redhill, Surrey 
<Boatmans@compuservexom 


Financing of airport facilities Happy to be identified as a nobody 


From Mr Gerald Clark 
Sir, Des Wilson of BAA suggests that national 
airports and infrastructure are provided free of 
charge on the back of airport retailing operations. 
Having used Heathrow twice this past week, 
purchasing services- and expensive catering en 
route, does he really expect me to believe that there 
were no charge elements for airport facilities 
included in the base cost of my airline ticket? 
Yours faithfully, 

GERALD CLARK. 16 Mansel Street, Swansea. 


From Mr Richard Griffith 
Sir, Having read Sir Terence Conran'S letter 
and Des Wilson’s reply, the latter is a 
disgraceful and unjustified personal attack 
which reeks of guilt f should be pleased to be 
identified as one of foe nobodies to whom Des 
Wilson refers. 

Yours anonym ously, 

RICHARD GRIFFITH, 

Cuatro Vientos 31, Aralya, 

07811 Sant Vicent de sa Cal a, Ibiza, Spain. 


From the Minister at the 
Foreign and Commonwealth 
Office 

Sir, You are, of course, right to 
conclude that Robin Cook's 
"idea of bringing business 
expertise to bear on the For¬ 
eign Office is admirable" (City 
Editor’s commentary, Novem¬ 
ber 25). I would, however, take 
issue with your suggestion 
that business leaders acting as 
ambassadors for Britain can¬ 
not do much to help small 
companies. 

Nothing could be further 
from the truth. This latest 
initiative builds on the part- 


Business ambassadors more funding for overseas 


nership we are developing 
with the private sector. In 
particular it gives the Foreign 
Office a better understanding 
of the needs of all exporters — 
large and small — and will 
complement the day to day 
commercial work of our posts 
overseas, much of which is 
devoted to helping small and 
medium sized exporters. 

Indeed. 75 per cent of the 
chargeable work by our com¬ 
mercial sections is for com¬ 
panies with under 500 staff. Nor 
is this initiative at the expense of 


more tunaing tor overseas 
trade fairs . Tne joint Fbreign 
Office-DTl Export Forum 
study, initiated this summer, 
is aimed at improving assis¬ 
tance to smaller companies. 

Margaret Beckett has al¬ 
ready announced the largest 
ever programme of support 
for UK exporters taking part 
in overseas trade fairs and 
outward missions in 1998-99. 
Yours faithfully. 

DEREK FATCHETT, 
Minister of State for Foreign & 
Commonwealth Affairs, 
Foreign & Commonwealth 
Office, SW1. 




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32 BUSINESS NEWS 


THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2S19W 










The attitude was one of win at any price 


The inspector? say they were faced constantly with untruthful, incomplete, and sharply 
conflicting testimony. They were often forced to decide between two or more accounts 
of events that were hopelessly at variance, relying on assessment of several witnesses 
and the plausibility of their testimony. On occasion they found themselves unable to 
accept any of the accounts. Below we extract the report on the Guinness affair. 


WE WOULD, of course, have 
preferred our findings to have 
been made available more 
rapidly. Some of what occurred 
in 1986 has already been ex¬ 
posed 10 public gaze, as a result 
of the evidence given in the 
criminal proceedings, includ¬ 
ing substantial extracts from 
our interviews with some of the 
defendant. But much has not: 
many areas of the canvas re¬ 
mained unexamined in the 
criminal process. Nor has any 
systematic account of what 
happened ever been publicly 
available. Tb/s we hope nowio 
provide. Despite a certain dis¬ 
tance in the past, we believe rhe 
events we describe in this 
report retain not only interest, 
but current relevance. 

Our repeated journeys over 
limited patches of territory 
were undoubtedly necessary, 
for from the start we were faced 
constantly with untruthful, in¬ 


complete. and sharply conflict¬ 
ing testimony. We were often 
forced to decide between two 
or more accounts of events 
that were hopelessly at vari¬ 
ance. relying upon our assess¬ 
ment of the several witnesses 
and the plausibility of their 
testimony. On occasion we 
found ourselves unable to 
accept — or to accept in its 
entirety — any of the accounts 
presented to us. We were also 


WITNESSES 


confronted by the reverse 
problem, where.witnesses had 
aligned their stories and evi¬ 
dence. This sometimes came 
to naught, when some of the 
witnesses were unable to with¬ 
stand the pressure of sus¬ 
tained lying to us. or others 
were unable to provide satis¬ 


factory answers to questions 
outside their ■‘brief*’: some¬ 
times. also, the common story 
was in itself implausible or the 
witnesses quite unconvincing 
in retelling it. 

We were denied the evi¬ 
dence of two important wit¬ 
nesses: Thomas Wand, a 
Washington DC lawyer and 
former non-executive director 
of the company, and Ivan Boe- 
sky, the former US arbitra¬ 
geur. We tried on numerous 
occasions to interview Mr 
Ward, both in the UK and in 
the US. After much effort it be¬ 
came dear that Mr Ward did 
nor intend to be interviewed by 
us. despite that, as a former 
officer of the company, he 'was 
bound to attend for interview 
if so requested under the terms 
of Section 434 of the Compan¬ 
ies Act 1985. On March 15, 
1994, the High Court made a 
committal order of six months’ 


An education 
from Pames 
on bid battles 


DURING the Bell's bid con¬ 
ducted by Guinness prior to 
bidding for Distillers Olivier 
Roux picked the brains of 
Anthony Rimes on the sub¬ 
ject of market tactics in 
acquisition battles. He found 
it educative. 

“Pames told me that the 
City worked on the flowing 
and ebbing sentiments and 
whims which were largely 
dictated by the share price. 

“If seemed to me a short¬ 
term view based on emotion 
at the expense of long-term 
fundamentals and careful 
analysis — l learnt from 
Pames that market tactics 
were a natural and entirely 
accepted and necessary part 
of contested bids. These 
tactics involved purchasing 
shares in the offeree or 
opponent company as, a 
blocking strategy or to un¬ 
settle the share price, 
organising supporters to 
purchase one’s own compa¬ 
ny's shares to maintain price 
levels, or to purchase 
offeree's shares in order to 
have them used to boost 
acceptances of the offer. 

“If supporters were in¬ 
volved it was the practice to 
make sure that any losses 
were covered through an 
informal agreement to that 
effect He did imply how¬ 
ever that one did run the 
risk of being reprimanded 
by the Takeover Panel if the 
supporter;' dealings should 
have been disclosed but 
were not He implied that 
this was a grey area and as 
most hostile bids involved 
these tactics and w'ere there¬ 
fore widespread there was 
no real cause for concern." 

lr became apparent that 
I this view of market tactics in 
Takeover battles was not re¬ 
stricted to Mr Pames. 

An increased offer by Ar¬ 
gyll and clearance from the 
MMC puf pressure on 
Guinness to raise its offer, 
and there was considerable 
discussion and argument. 
Mr Saunders was most anx¬ 
ious to increase the offer, but 
most of the advisers, in 
particular Oizenove and 
Morgan Grenfell, w'ere 
strongly opposed ro this. 

Mr Saunders’ histrionic re¬ 
action at one stage was to 
ask loudly for the telephone 
number of SG Warburg, 
hinting that a less pusiliani- 


THE TACTICS 


mous merchant bank would 
do his bidding. Eventually, 
he yielded and agreed that 
the offer would not be in* 
creased, and an announce¬ 
ment to this effect was made 
on April 3,1986. 

From March 20, 1986. rite 
day before Argyll’s third 
offer, to the high point of the 
Guinness share price • on 
April 14.1986, the share price 
moved from 298p to 353p, an 
increase of 185 per cent 
against a fall of 02 per cent 
in the FTSE 100 index. 
During the same period the 
Argyll share price rose 8.9 
; percent Despite such gener¬ 
al indications that the mar¬ 
ket in Guinness shares was 
not a normal one during the 
period of the bid, we were 
not prepared for the enormi¬ 
ty of the support operation as 
revealed by 3 detailed analy¬ 
sis of transactions. 

We found that some 78 
million Guinness shares 
(some 25 per cent of the 
issued share capital) were 
purchased by supporters of 
the Guinness cause from 
January 20 to April 18, 1986, 
more than half being bought 
in the last two weeks. The 
supporters were: J Roth¬ 
schild Holdings. Runson in¬ 
terests, Mrs Seulberger- 
Simon, Henry Ansbacher 
clients, LK Rothschild. 
Guinness Pension Funds. 
Schenley Industries Inc, 
CIFCO and Berisford Capi¬ 
tal Corporation. Z-Bank, Mr 
Boesky’s interests. Bank Leu. 
Mr Saunders. Sir Jack Lyons 
& clients, Fursienberg. Mor¬ 
gan Grenfell. 


imprisonment against Mr 
Ward on the ground of his fail¬ 
ure to comply with Section 
434. A warrant for iiis arrest 
was issued and remains out¬ 
standing. capable of execution 
should 're-enter the UK. In 
failing to co-operate with our 
inquiry Mr Ward seriously 
failed in his duty as a director, 
and later former director, of 
an English company. As will 
appear from the body of this 
report, this was no more than 
the final chapter in the lengthy 
saga of Mr Ward's fellings as 
an officer of Guinness. 

Of Mr Boesky's failure to 
give oral evidence to us there 
is perhaps less to criticise. 
Unlike Mr Ward, he was not 
an officer, or former officer, of 
the company, and. being in the 
US and therefore out of the 
jurisdiction, was under no 
legal obligation to assist us. 
Nevertheless, Mr Boesky 
made much of his ready co¬ 
operation with the authorities 
and it is right to record that so 
far as our inquiry was con¬ 
cerned, there were serious 
limits to that co-operation. 
Though his evidence would 
have been valuable, it was not 
in the event vital, and we do 
not believe that its absence has 
prevented us finom establish¬ 
ing a substantially accurate 
picture of the events in which 
he was involved. 



Ronson saw no 
reason for 


being excluded 
from the feast 


♦ < 


Gerald Ronson, the Heron chief, leaving a London court hearing in October 1987 


A contempt for truth in part 
of City thought respectable 



Pames: risk of reprimand 


THAT this market support 
operation was an enterprise of 
deception, there can be no 
doubt. It is impossible to leU 
the extent to which the decep¬ 
tion succeeded in fact It was 
widely known throughout the 
market that there was exten¬ 
sive buying of Guinness 
shares; cynical references to 
support operations appeared 
in the press. It is unlikdy that 
many holders of a large block 
of Distillers shares would 
have taken the share price at 
face value or expected that it 
would necessarily survive at 
that level after the dose of the 
bid. 

In the present case, how¬ 
ever, we feel that even a 
sceptical holder of Disti/leis 
shares might well have under¬ 
estimated the remarkable ex¬ 
tent of the support operation 
and the corresponding dis¬ 
count which should be made 
for it. And not all holders of 
Distillers shares would have 
been sufficiently sophisticated 
or weli-jnformed to ignore the 
current share price in reach¬ 
ing their decision on which 
offer to accept, or whether to 
sell in the market 


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We can see no reason why 
an operation with such decep¬ 
tive purpose should be re¬ 
garded as acceptable. In the 
most fundamental sense, it 
aims at the creation of a false 
market: the company or its 
agents or advisers set out to 
move the share price to an 
artificial level by procuring or 
stimulating purchases not 
motivated by considerations 
related to the investment po¬ 
tential of the stock, their 
involvement or its nature 
being concealed to avoid ex¬ 
posing the contrivances un¬ 
derlying the resulting price. 

To date, perhaps while 
awaiting our report the Take¬ 
over Panel has taken no 
action arising out of the share 
support operation. It has. 
however, reacted to the con¬ 
cert party purchase of 10.6 
million Distillers shares on 
April 17.19S6. On September 
2. 1987 rhe Panel ordered 
Guinness to pay compensa¬ 
tion to Distillers’ sharehold¬ 
ers who might have opted for 


a cash alternative increased in 
accordance with Rule li.l. 
Though no doubt the result of 
practical considerations 
which we wdl understand, 
this approach was based on 
an unreal premise. 

If, before the end of the bid. 
the Panel had been duly 
apprised of the concerted 
nature of the purchase, it 
would have had to role that 
the bid must lapse, no in¬ 
crease in the offer being 
possible in the last 14 days of 
the bid, or — possibly — to 
order a divestment of the 
shares. No question would 
thus have arisen of extending 
the price of 731p to all Distill¬ 
ers' shareholders. In practice, 
if disclosure had ever been, 
contemplated, the shares' 
would never have been pur¬ 
chased. What effect the excess 
concerted purchases had on 
the outcome of the rival bids is 
an impossible speculation, 
but it is conceivable that 
without them success might 
have gone to Argyll 


The compensation to for¬ 
mer Distillers' shareholders 
resulting from the Panel’s 
ruling was in the region of £65 
million. That isa figure which 
Mr Saunders — and perhaps 
more neutral observers — 
would almost certainly have 
regarded as a reasonable ad¬ 
ditional expense to secure 
Distillers. Once consummat¬ 
ed. a takeover cannot realisti¬ 
cally be reversed and the case 
illustrates the difficulty of 
providing ex post facto justice 
for a losing contestant or 
accepting shareholders. 

What (if any) additional 
changes could assist in prac¬ 
tice is a large subject but 
merits dose examination by 
the Panel and its sponsoring 
bodies. Though our sensibil¬ 
ities may have been numbed 
by long confrontation with 
the evidence, three features 
still shine disturbingly 
through. Firstly, the cynical 
disregard of Jaws and regula¬ 
tions; secondly, the cavalier 
misuse of company monies; 
thirdly, a contempt for truth 
and common honesty: all 
these in a part of rhe City 
thought respectable. 


WE HAVE had conflicting evi¬ 
dence as to the extent of Coze- 
neve’s freedom in the use of the 
firepower conferred on it by a 
JRH investment order (as in¬ 
creased in the course of the bid). 
Nils Taube. director of J Roth¬ 
schild Holdings, and Nicholas 
Radio told us that Cazenove had 
full discretion as to the timing 
and price of purchases. David 
Mayhew. a Cazenove partner, 
would report back the deals to 
Mr Taube after he had made 
than. While Mr Taube could, of 
course, express displeasure at 
that stage, in practice be only 
did so when the price reached 
345/350p towards the end of the 
bid. Even then. Mr Taube* re¬ 
action was one of “if you must, 
you must", meaning that he 
would go along with such high 
prices if Mr Mayhew thought it 
necessary for the bid’s success. 

Mr Mayhew maintained, by 
contrast, that in the almost daily 
discussions, which (as is agreed 
by Mr Taube} Cazenove had 
with JRH on a range of dealing 
topics, advance approval was 
obtained to all purchases of 
Guinness shares, within agreed 
parameters of size and price. We 
think that the account given by 
Mr Taube and Mr Roditi is 
closer to the true picture. The 
possibility of purchases on a 

particular day __ 

would no doubt 

have featured 6 We 

in the regular • , 

discussions be- believe 

tween Caze- 

nove and JRH, advance 

but we do not was gQ, 

believe that 

specific ad- given in 

vance approval 

(even within. ' SUgg& 

MrMa 

was sought or •• 

given systemat¬ 
ically in the way suggested by 
Mr Mayhew. Mr Taube was, . 
of course, kept in the picture 
and had no objection to the 
way in which Cazenove was 
executing JRH’s standing in¬ 
vestment order, albeit he expe¬ 
rienced and voiced some 
limited reluctance towards the 
end. That he could at any time 
have withdrawn the balance 
of that investment order, does 
not detract from the essential 
position that at significant mo¬ 
ments in the bid Cazenove 
were in practice roasters of a 
formidable reserve of pur¬ 
chase-power entrusted to them 
by JRH. 

The use of several different 
brokers was designed to create 
the illusion of numerous bity- 
ers and hence greater activity 
and interest Neither the 
indemnity nor purchases were 
disdosed under the City Code. 

Throughout the period of 
the bid Gerald Ronson was, as 
he told us, in regular contact 
with Mr Saunders, who would 
telephone him every ten days 


CAZENOVE 



Mayhew: daity discussions 


j- or so to ascertain Mr Ronson's 
). views on market or City re-":, 
i- action to the Guinness bid 
s The two men also met over' 
d breakfast at the New Piaadil-' 
g ly Hotel on February 7, 19867- 
i when Mr Saunders gave Mr- 
r. Ronson a commission to value. 
o certain hotel properties owned' » 
e by Distillers. This was no- W 
if doubt the kind of business- 
if opportunity which Mr Ronson.. 
yr fed hoped to encourage and ttf ; 
i receive more of from an m- 
e larged Guinness group in re*'- 
s turn for his supportive 
[, attitude on share purchases. 1 

s His idea of an appropriate , 
a quid pro quo was, however, to 
t grow more ambitious as those. 

purchases increased. 
y The limit of £10 million was 
y reached on February 19,1986; - 
1 at which point there was a’ 

J pause before buying resumed- 
l on March 6.1986. Mr Ronson 
j appears to have agreed to s, 
f revised limit, probably of £15 
i million in the first instance,' 

? being raised in due course to 
f E18 million. That new limit. 

; was reached on March 27, 

: 1986. Mr Faroes sought still, 
t further purchases. Mr Ronson 

___ was prepared 

to contemplate j 
6 We do not a ceiling" * 

.. of £25 million,, 

believe specific but only on 

advance approval 

was sought or reached him of 

fat success-re- : 

given in the way fated fees nego 

suggested by SX, 1 " b< Sy 

Mayhew? 

Ronson saw no 
reason to be excluded from the 
-. feast “I said to (Pames) This is 
all very good stuff, but tell me, • 
if you are successful, what is 
our success fee if we go to £25 
million? His reply was that he 
thought 20 per cent of the totals 
exposure would be a reasori£ 
able success fee — I said, Thap 
may be your idea, but do you- 
have the approval of the com- \ 
pany?\ to which he replied the 
following day that the answer, 
was Yes’”. 

Quite apart from illegality! 
and impropriety, the agree: ‘ 
ment and payment of a E5 mil-:'. f 

lion success fee reflects a «=.*.: 
markably cavalier approach'-- 
to the use of Guinness funds: 

The indemnity protected Her- " 
on against both loss through ai 
fall in the share price and> 
against carrying costs (ie. in¬ 
terest). Accordingly, Mr Saun^j 
ders caused Guinness to agreed 
and pay ro Heron a sum"' 
equivalent to 20 per cent of its \ 
capital outlay over and above'^ 
the payment of conventional"™ 
interest though that capital •' 
was committed for only a very- 
few months (much of it for * 
much less), and was protected 
against any risk of loss. 

Moreover, his agreement to ‘ 
a £5 million success fee se-^ 
cured for Mr Saunders only &£ 
modest increase in the fire> 
power — perhaps in the region-': 
of £7 million. Mr Saunders' : - 
was dearly so concerned tn,;. 
obfain any passible further, 
support for the Guinness^ 
share price in the fast twtf? 
weeks of the bid that he was-, 
little interested In the cost of? 
such support The attitude- 
was. it seems, one of “win at' 
any price". . : -.s 


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right stocks in the Ponfolm 
panel brim*’. In the 
provided next m your eigtii 
shares enter the share mow* 
mats as published on this 
page. Ignore fractions, ie enter 
16*2 as lb (the sjTnbol... means 
no change). After listing the 
price changes of ywr eight 
shares, add or subtract as 
appropriate to find your IrtaJ 
which can be plus or minus. If 
your overall ioul matches 
exactly the points required far 
the daily dividend you win or 
share die E1.000 prize. 


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PRINTING & PAPER 


Wolverhampton: D Floyd. 
London ws. 


The Diamond and Watch specialist 


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Are there too many appeals? scene set for 

|2 "CftgE STUDY pay battle 


John 

O’Leary on 
girls’ schools’ 
worries 
about A-level 


reviews 


P arents could have 
been forgiven fbr feel¬ 
ing themselves the 
villains of the piece at 
this'week’s Girls*.Schools As¬ 
sociation (GSA)' conference, 
which ends in Bristol today. 

The headlines have been 
captured by their supposed 
mollycoddling of children and 
their role in encouraging eat- 
. ing disorders because of ak 
" f leged susceptibility to .the- 
' arguments erf food fetishists. 
The predicted apprehension of 
parents about the impact of 
partnerships with state 
schools was also among the 
chief concerns of Stephen 
Byers, the Schools Minister. 

Away from the conference 
platform, however, headmis¬ 
tresses were worrying about 
another trait <rf the assertive 
customer, which some think, 
could distort the educational 
process. Parents have: noted 
the publicity over the success 
of challenges to A-level grad¬ 
ing. and are demanding, a 
second opinion when results 
fall short of expectations. 

Leading girls* schools are 
also calling for a review of 
A-level procedures because 
they fear that pressure from 
parents tochallenge grades is 
creating an appeals culture 
■ that threatensihe credibility of 
♦the examination. 

The number of appeals has 
risen sharply: the Associated : 
Examining Board (AEB) re- ' 
ports a 32 per cent increase 
this year alone. Although only 
schools can challenge a result, 
die - high - success rate has 
encouraged parents to de¬ 
mand appeals, .when univer¬ 
sity places are at stake. 

GSA research found that its 
members had each challenged 
about 11 results last year. l 
M ore than. 330of the StDO'ap- 
.peals covered by the Purvey ; 
were successful and only, two 
led to grades being reduced. 

London-based members of 
the GSA, which include sev¬ 
eral of the schools at the top of 
jjkr week’s league tables, have 
demanded action to reduce the 
number of appeals arid to 
tighten up marking enough to 
cut the proportion of candi¬ 
dates being upgraded. 

Clarissa Pair, Headmistress 



On your marks: more and more parents are challenging A-levri results when university places are at stake 


of Queerawood School, in 
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, said: 
"The volume of appeals is 
absolutely ridiculous and it is. 
putting sdiools that cannot - 
afford to appeal.at an unfair 
disadvantage. M something is 
- noMcn^t^ 

trf^^eitemimnggriam will 
be m question-"' „■ 

Rosanne Randle. Headmis¬ 
tress of Dame Alice Harpur 
School. Bedford, who chairs 
the GSA’s education commit¬ 
tee, said: “Eve years ago head 
teachers would have resisted a 
parents request to appeal 
unless they were absolutely 
cert^ tiiat-an ixijtistice had 
been done, bnt they cannot be 
confident that grades will be 


confirmed. The uncertainty 
puts us in an invidious pos¬ 
ition, which needs to be ad¬ 
dressed by toe new quali¬ 
fications authority." 

Jacqueline Lang, the GSA’s 
president and Headmistress of 
'WaWtannstow : HaIk in Seven-, 
oaks, Kent said: "The prob¬ 
lem is most serious in English, 
but it is evident in all the 
subjects which involve essay¬ 
writing and opinions. It has 
got to the point where some 
schools fed they might as well 
appeal about everything. You 
cannot have a situation where 
you assume that the results 
are wrong until proved 
otherwise." 

As wed as costing some 


students a place at their cho¬ 
sen university, schools’ results 
are underestimated in the 
league tables. Mrs Lang said: 
“A couple of extra grades can 
make all the difference to a 
school's score" 

. George Turnbull, a spokes¬ 
man for the Assessment and 
Qualifications Alliance, which 
indudes the AEB, said: “We 
are as concerned as the schools 
about the development of a 
culture in which appealing 
becomes the first port of call. 
The system was not designed 
to accommodate this sort of 
volume of inquiries. It was 
meant to be a safety net for 
people who had been expected 
to do very much better than 


their results suggested." 
• Mr Turnbull said that most 
appeals could not result in 
grades being lowered, so 
schools felt they had nothing 
to lose. A levels were closely 
moderated, but some regrad¬ 
ing was inevitable if papers 
were re-marked, especially in 
arts subjects. 


LOUISE NICHOLhad 
set her heart on a {dace at 
Cambridge after surviving 
two days of tests and inter¬ 
views at Girton College. 

AD she needed wore three 
top-grade A levels, John 
O'Leary writes. 

Havant College, in 
Hampshire, was confident 
that she would get them, 
and the exams in English. 
French and Spanish went 
well. But her plans fell apart 
when the resalts arrived. 

She had dropped to a B in 
English, and Girton was 
oversubscribed with those 
who had met their targets- 

"It seemed grossly un¬ 
fair," Louise said. "I had 
worked so hard to get the 
grades i thought I deserved. I 
was distraught when I got 
that B." 

Both the college and 
Louise’s mother Sue, a teach¬ 
er at St Paul’s School 
London, were so convinced 
that the grade was wrong 
that they launched an imme¬ 
diate appeal. The Associ¬ 
ated Examining Board 
agreed, but the amended 
result took eight weeks to 
come through, by which 
time Louise had started a lan¬ 
guages degree at Univer¬ 
sity College London. 

Girton offered a place id 
1998, but said Louise had 
missed too much of the 
course to be admitted this 
term. "Having a year off 
now would be such an up¬ 
heaval" Louise said. “I’m 
not sure I could face another 
change, especially when 
I’m settled and enjoying the 
course." 

Both Louise and her 
mother are angry that the 
process has cost her tire 
chance of a Cambridge de¬ 
gree. “After two days of in¬ 
terviews and tests, I think the 
college had a far better 
picture of me than they could 
ever have got through A 
levels," Louise said. "Yet they 
were all that counted." 

Sue Nicho! said: "As a 
teacher, I see all the time how 
unpredictable A levels are 
in subjects like English, hist¬ 
ory and art This is a typi¬ 
cal example of the student 
suffering when she has 
done everything right" 


M embers of the 
teachers’ pay re¬ 
view body report¬ 
edly looked “horrified" 
earlier this month when 
local authority employers 
demanded a bekrw inflation 
rise for next year. 

The employers' call for a 
23 per cent settlement was 
followed this week by an 
unprecedented "reminder" 
to public sector pay bodies 
from Gordon Brown, the 
Chancellor of the Exche¬ 
quer, for pay restraint. 

Just weeks after the Gov¬ 
ernment launched a £10 
million drive to promote the 
profession, teachers look 
like receiving their lowest 
pay rise for a decade. Class¬ 
room unions, which submit¬ 
ted a 10 per cent claim, 
predictably have accused 
ministers and employers of 
a topsy-turvy approach to 
raising morale and improv¬ 
ing the image of reaching. 

But employers argue that 
the Government will fail to 
meet its pledge to reduce 
dass sizes unless it awards 
a bdow-inflanon rise. 
Moreover, they say there Is 
no recruitment crisis. 

Graham Lane, chairman 
of the National Employers' 
Organisation for School 
Teachers, says: Teacher 
recruitment is not a prob¬ 
lem — there are 15 teachers 
chasing every job m Shef¬ 
field. There are no vacancies 
for head teachers in Eng¬ 
land. There have always 
been a few problem subject 
areas but you don't fend 
more maths or modern 
language teachers by giving 
an above-inflation pay rise 
to all teachers." 

The employers are known 
to be lobbying hard to have 
the pay review body itself 
scrapped. Mr Lane adds: 
Teachers’ pay has gone up 
by 100 per cent in ten years 
while inflation stands at 68 
per cent They have done 
better than anyone else in 
local government including 
the police." He argues that 
more people would become 
trainee teachers if classes 
were smaller and working 
conditions better. 

Doug McAvcy, general 


secretary of the National 
Union of Teachers, says the 
review body should treat the 
Government’s target for 
dass limits of 30 for five, six 
and seven-year-olds sepa¬ 
rately from salary. 

"If the Government does 

not get enough money from 
phasing out the Assisted 
Places Scheme to meet its 
class size targets, it has to 
End more money from 
somewhere else, not from 
teachers' pay," he says. 

Teachers will be angry if 
they have to pay for smaller 
classes. Mr Lane should be 
arguing for higher pay as 
well as smaller dasses and 



Brown: pay restraint 

telling the Government to 
find the money." 

Mr Brown railed the pub¬ 
lic sector pay review chair¬ 
men together on Tuesday to 
drive home his pay policy 
message. Head teachers 
sense that the intervention 
means the writing is on the 
wall for next year’s pay 
round — and perhaps even 
for the future of the review 
body, which makes its rec¬ 
ommendations in January. 

David Hart, general sec¬ 
retary of the National Asso¬ 
ciation of Head Teachers, 
says: This was an outra¬ 
geous interference with the 
independence of tile pay 
review body. I hope it will 
resist this pressure and 
make recommendations 
that are in the interests of 
the education service, even 
if they are not to the liking of 
the Government" 

David Charter 


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John Rae on a scheme to persuade parents of the benefits of boarding 

When boarding is best 


POSTGRADUATE COURSES 


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T he police investigation 
into child pornography 
which included raids on 
two boarding schools could 
.not have been more badly 
timed for the Boarding Educa¬ 
tion Alliance (BEA). 

Its birth this week passed, 
almost unnoticed after fr sensi¬ 
bly decided, in consultation 
with its public relations advis¬ 
ers. on a low-key launch. 

The aim of the BEA. which 
represents ISO schools, is to 
sell boarding education in .an ' 
increasingly sceptical and' 
shrinldng market. The num¬ 
ber ofboarders in independent 
schools has fallen by 28 per 
cent in the past ten years: 
Boarding education may not 
be in terminal decline but it is 
no longer the preferred option 
for middle-class parents. High. 
fees, the overriding impor¬ 
tance of academic qualifica¬ 
tions and the stubborn image 
of dormitories where bullying 
gees unchecked, all help to 
am vince parents that a good 
independent or maintained 
dav school is the answer. Why 
spend E12.000 a year when 

you can have at least as good 

an education for half the pnee 

or for nothing? 

If the BEA is to be success¬ 
ful, it will have to persuade 
parents not only that- .me 
stubborn images are outdated 
but that the boarding experi¬ 
ence has something distinctive 
to offer. 

The former should not be 
wo difficult There are board- 
too schools where change has 
help superficial. - 
ordinated curtains and bed¬ 
spreads - but most have 
undergone profound chang*- 
It is no longer true, tor 
example, that bullying is more 
likelv to flourish in a boarding 
day school: on the con- 
Sary. the tighter pastoral 
structure of a good boarding 
school, including access to a 
SuSlor, probably means 
that bulbing is picked “P ^ 

dealt with more quickly. 



The film Another Country questioned the boarding idea 


Persuading parents of the 
special quality of boarding 
should not be difficult; either. 
What is distinctive about 
boarding schools is not that 
they develop character and 
leadership but that they offer a 
fuller^ more rounded educa¬ 
tion. In tiffs they have; three., 
advantages over day schools: 
time, the availability of staff 
and the excellence of facilities. 
If an important part of educa¬ 
tion is to discover what you 
have an aptitude for and to be 
encouraged in that aptitude, a 
good boarding school provides' 
opportunities that few day 
schools can match. As one 
parent said: “Boarding maxi¬ 
mises die children's poten tial." 

Boarding schools also offer 
parents a widerchdce: Small 
day. schools are rare. Small 
boarding schools, such as St 
Anne’s m Windermere or the 
even smaller New School in 
Dunkeld, that excel in helping 
the slower or “mo re frag ile" 
child, are one of the strengths 
of the boarding sector. There 
are day schools, such as 


George Watson’S in Edin¬ 
burgh, that successfully inte¬ 
grate pupils who need 
teaming support, but most of 
the good learning support 
units are in boarding schools. 

N or is It true that for 
academic excellence 
parents should look to 
the great urban day schools. 
The most successful school 
since A-level league tables 
were introduced is Winches¬ 
ter, a boarding school. Other 
boarding schools figure prom¬ 
inently in the upper reaches of 
these tables, despite having to 
fill beds as best they can, 

. Manchester Grammar 
School may have five candi¬ 
dates of equal ability for each 
place, but it is hard-pushed to 
compe te academically with 
some of the girls’ boarding 
schools .that do not have that 
luxury. The less hectic aca¬ 
demic atmosphere of these 
boarding schools can deliver 
A^evd results that are argu¬ 
ably more impressive than 
those erf the day schools. 


I am not suggesting that 
boarding schools are better 
than day schools or vice versa, 
just that boarding may suit 
some children better. The case 
for boarding is often expressed 
in terms of what suits different 
categories of parents — lone 
parents, both parents work¬ 
ing, parents who live overseas. 
But boarding may also suit the 
child from a traditional family 
living two miles from the 
school, particularly over the 
period of adolescence. 

The family is the theatre in 
which most young people act 
out the rites of passage, but 
boarding schools offer a legiti¬ 
mate alternative. The rebel¬ 
lious adolescent takes on the 
school rather than his or her 
parents. For two thirds of the 
year, the school absorbs the 
strain. That may suit some 
adolescents as much as it suits 
their parents. 

In fad, it is the contempo¬ 
rary adolescent lifestyle that 
presents the boarding 
schools with their most diffi¬ 
cult problem. By being mime 
open to parents and allowing 
their pupils to have regular 
contact with home, boarding 
schools have encouraged the 
view that there should not be 
such a contrast between the 
lifestyle at home and the 
lifestyle at school. The BEA 
emphasises that bearding 
schools now try to "repro¬ 
duce the Ufesiyle of home". 

The more boarding schools 
tty to reproduce the lifestyle of 
home, the more difficulties 
they may make for them¬ 
selves, ft wiwW be a pity if just 
when boarding schools are 
dispelling outdated images 
and modernising so many 
aspects of their operation, they 
forget that one of the attrac¬ 
tions of boarding school for 
both parents and pupils, is 
that it is not like home. 

• The BEA National Information 
Line is 0171-388 8866. Dr Hoe's 
book Lenars id Parents w iU be 
published in January. 






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38 ARTS MUSEUMS 


"fH^MESFWDAy NOVEMBER 28 1997. 
thf TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMB ER , 28 1997 


I f your heart tugs you in one 
direction and your head in 
another, do you try to stand 
still? Clearly that would be biologi¬ 
cally unwise. Your body would 
snap. Bur that is more or less the 
attitude of our museums and 
galleries to the vexed matter of 
admission charges. 

Few people would raise a rous¬ 
ing cheer if charges were imposed 
by rhe institutions that still main¬ 
tain free public entry. The heart 
says no. The evidence also says no. 
in the sense that most of it (though 
not ail) suggests that attendances 
would decline. 

Yet nobody would be chuffed if a 
national glory like the British 
Museum went bust. True, the 
BM>s financial methods were, 
until recently, skimpy to the point 
of invisibility. The mummified 
Egyptians who line the BM's halls 
were certainly accustomed to less 
primitive accountancy procedures 
in their former lives. 

Even so. the fact is that, even if it 
were bener managed, the BM 
would probably still need to in¬ 
crease its income. Since that 


The charge of the cobwebbed brigade 


increase won’t come from politi¬ 
cians. it must come from punters. 
Therefore the head reluctantly 
says yes to charges. And not only 
at the BM, but at all institutions 
that have clung to free entry. 

The question now 7 is. does head 
or heart win? This week the 
“heart" brigade has been in full, 
hysterical cry. They suspect that a 
Labour Party which piously ab¬ 
horred museum charges while in 
Opposition has now executed a 11- 
rum. They are right to suspect 
Labour will find not a penny more 
for culture. So. short of robbing the 
Peters of the performing arts to 
pay the Pauls of the museums, the 
Culture Secretary has no option 
but to be pragmatic. Next week he 
is likely to tell the museums to 
charge away, if that is what it takes 
to keep them in business. 

Will that be sad? Again, the 
heart says yes. A few Saturdays 
ago I had an hour to kill in London 


with my three children. We went to 
the National Gallery. The atmo¬ 
sphere was chaotic but exhilarat¬ 
ing. Tots thronged round Turners, 
adolescent eyes grew saucer-wide 
at the fleshly exuberance of the 
randier Old Masters. No space for 
peaceful contemplation here — but 
my goodness, the place was alive. 

You will guess my next sentence. 
We might not have dropped into 
rhe National Gallery on impulse if 
entry had involved the swift re¬ 
moval of £25. Nor would scores of 
other familes that day. Parting 
with serious money would have 
turned the whole thing into a big- 
deal cultural expedition. I would 
have forced the kids to trudge 
round every damn canvas to get 
our tickets’ worth. They would 
have made an Oedipal mental note 
to avoid Daddy’s favourite art 
gallery for the rest of their lives. 

So 1 have some sympathy with 
those who argue that free muse- 



RICHARD MORRISON 


urns foster cultural appreciation in. 
ways that are unquantifiable and 
subliminal. But isn’t there a 
sleight-of+and illogicality here? 
After all. it is just as important that 
I induct my children into the 
pleasures of the National Theatre. 


die Albert Hall, Lord's Cricket 
Ground and Arsenal Football 
Club. Each is as much part of our 
cultural heritage as the National 
Gallery. Yet I don't expect the 
family to get in free. 

That is;why I object to.the 
gallons of sentimental tosh in the 
newspapers this week. A turnstile 
at the BM does not signal the end 
of civilisation. It might just help to 
preserve it: Nor will it “discourage 
wtjrking<lass people". Alton 
Towers is packed with ordinary 
folk who pay a hefty wedge to get 
in. The fact is that the public is 
attracted by atmosphere, imagina¬ 
tion, excitement, friendliness and 
good marketing, not by free entry. 
Some of the world's greatest 
museums charge for entry and are 
packed. Other are free but as lively 
as morgues at midnight Indeed, 
without any financial pressure to 
pull in punters, curators easily 
settle into cobwebbed old ways. 


Which raises another point At 
the last count Britain had 2j00 
museums, some of them staffed 
wife hundreds of curators, guards 
and administrators. Is the huge 
expansion of the past 20 years 
(now intensified by lottery hand- 
outs) satisfying a genuine demand, 
or the entire-building lusts of 
curators? Isfee public being taken 
for a gented ride? If sa the case for 
free admission becomes even 
weaker. Let'the'bracing gale of 
market fortes blow away fee duds. 

T he trouble is that museum 
directors are too busy man¬ 
ning the barricades to think 
positively abriiit the advantages of 
admission charges. Yes. chaps, 
advantages. For instance, the mu¬ 
seums should study the tactics of 
English Heritage. After you have 
visited one of their castles, you are 
offered a membership deal that 
gets you into all the others. What’s 


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compete with the myriad leisure 
attractions of the 21ft cenrory. 
They urgently need to revolutwn- 
£theft marling, iq m some 
thrills into their displays, invest m 
kiddie-gripping interactive tech- 
SosCe£lo it their collecnonson 
Ste taternei. To do that they need 
money. Admission charges wfe 

supply it Nothing else will. 

But in their present siege men¬ 
tality, museum bosses won't admit 
this* What a pity. We v®** 
years in argument and finanaaJ 
turmoil, and then end up with 
admission charges anyway. But 
that’s British cultural life for you. 


THEATRE: One of the National’s most successful plays has upset disabled people. Sue Corbett reports. Plus reviews 

DONALD COOPER 

Avery 
modem ' 
monster 

A PRISON warder calls 
Roberto Zucco, who has just 
killed his father, an example 
of "sheer evil" and “a wild, 
violent, animal bastard". But 
fee speaker belongs to the 
same law-and-order system 
feat proceeds to threaten a 
harmless young woman with 
violence in a “torture cham¬ 
ber": Later fee same girl’s 
brother, enraged that Zucco 
has raped her. also calls the 
criminal “evil". Yet his own 
next move is to sell his sister to 
a local pimp. What is going on 
in the unnamed but 
recognisably French dty 
where Bernard-Marie Roltes 
set the play be finished just l 
before he died of an Aids -'•* 
related disease in 1989? 

If a radical British drama¬ 
tist of that era had penned 
Roberto Zucco. fee answer 
would have been pretty dear. 

A corrupt, hypocritical capi¬ 
talist society created a killer 
who, as it turns out manages 
also to knock off his mother, a 
policeman and a child. But 
Koltes's ideology is not so 
glib, nor his diagnosis son eaL 
Roberfo Zucco — a real-life 








Owen Sharpe. Ruaidhri Conroy and Aisling O’Sullivan in the National’s production of The Cripple of Irtish maan : disabled people say they were upset that the central figure was the bull of so many jokes 


A spot of embarrass¬ 
ment is heading the 
National Theatre’s 
way next Tuesday. 
Its I99t>97 staging of Martin 
McDonagh’s 77ie Cripple Of 
Inishmaan is expected to re¬ 
ceive a Raspberry Ripple 
Award for the year’s worst 
theatre portrayal of a disabled 
person. This, and other 
awards for best and worst 
portrayals of disabled people 
in rhe arts and media, will be 
made by the I in S Group, 
which lobbies against disabled 
people (one in eight of the 
population) being seen as trag¬ 
ic. evil. heroic or comic, rather 


A ripple of disapproval 


than as pan of ordinary life. 

The embarrassment to the 
National is double-edged, 
since I in 8 and the theatre 
have generally been on friend¬ 
ly terms. The National’s for¬ 
mer artistic director. Sir 
Richard Eyre, had even of¬ 
fered the group free use of one 
of his foyers for next Tuesday’s 
ceremony, an offer it turned 
down when it decided to 


televise the awards. “But the 
Raspberry’ Ripple Awards are 
not meant to be heavy." says 
Susie Burrows, the 1 in 8 
spokeswoman. “We are not 
intending to castigate the Nat¬ 
ional. We are just giving 
people a chance to think about 
the issues." 

Nevertheless the group, 
which sent out 5,500 ballot 
papers to its 1,000 members 



and other interested parties, 
found there was a "spontane¬ 
ous eruption" of feeling 
against 772e Cripple Of 
Inishmaan. Some voters were 
so sharked that they left the 
theatre at the interval, and one 
disabled man. who had begun 
to think the audience would 
laugh at him if he went to the 
bar. felt compelled to stay in 
his seat ai half-time. 

“People were upset by the 
play because the disabled 
character was the butt of so 
many jokes." says Richard 
Reiser, the Raspberry Ripple 
{rhymes with cripple) co-ordi¬ 
nator. “The play was suppos¬ 
edly educative, but when 1 saw 
it the audience was joining in 
laughing at the disabled per¬ 
son's expense. If you’d put a 
black man in such a role, with 
racist jokes, there would have 
been uproar." 

A snatch of the McDonagh’s 
dialogue illustrates what 
Reiser means: “What would I 
want to go out walking with a 


cripple-boy for?" one character 
asks. “It isn’t out walking 
you’d be anyways, it would be 
out shuffling, because you 
can’t walk." 

“Eyre had told me they had 
a play coming up that I 
wouldn’t like because of fee 
ride." Reiser says. “He was 
right. The word cripple is 
gratuitously offensive. The as¬ 
sumption presumably was 
that the audience was sophisti¬ 
cated enough to say: ’Oh, we 
don’t use that word.’ But that's 
not true. We’re not at that 
stage. 

“In fact, the tide was the 
least of our worries. The play 
did not in any way enhance 
people's perceptions of the 
issues, and what is the theatre 
if it does not change and 
inform attitudes? These are 
some of the ideas we’d.like to 
take forward now with Rich¬ 
ard Eyre’s successor." 

The able-bodied teenage ac¬ 
tor Ruaidhri Conroy received 
glowing reviews for his acting 


in the tide role. But disabled 
actors complain that this 
robbed them of their best stage 
opportunity for years. “I can’t 
believe the National couldn’t 
find a disabled actor," says 
Jamie Beddard, who has cere¬ 
bral palsy' and performs with 
the Tottering Bipeds Com¬ 
pany. "If able-bodied actors 
get to play disabled roles, why 
doesn’t the reverse happen?" 


T he National’s casting 
director. Serena Hill, 
explains her difficul¬ 
ty: “it wasn’t dear 
until we got to rehearsals 
exactly what the character’s 
disability would be. But the 
age (17 to IS), the soul of this 
man, fold the fact that , he 
should be authentically Irish 
— were clear. Those were the 
priorities. Disabled or other¬ 
wise. it was going to be hard to 
find an actor that young with 

the right experience. 

There wasn’t any contest 
once we'd seen Ruaidhri 


There was a disabled actor on 
my initial list: he was too old 
really for the part, but he had 
many of the qualities we 
wanted. We would have seen 
him except that he turned out 
no longer to be available." 1 
For Reiser, that is unaccept¬ 
able. “Until theatres like the 
National start casting disabled 
people in more minor roles, 
people are not going to. have 
fee experience to' come 
through and do major parts. 
We need cross-casting^ as ap¬ 
plies now with black.actors. 
Disabled actors shouldn’t 
have to play stereotypes.” 

• Meanwhile, smaller com¬ 
panies seem 1 to be taking the 
lead. It is good news feat 
Tottering Bipeds is on the 1 in 8 
shortlist for best theatre pro¬ 
duction of 1997, “for casting 
Jamie Beddard in a leading 
rqlein Waningfor Godot, and 
making his impairment an 
integral part of the 
production”. 

• If you wanr to hdp I In 8 to 
monitor portrayals of 
people for next years ononis, write 
to them at 78 Mildmay Grave, 
London N/ 4PJ. enclosing SAE. 
The Raspberry Ripple Awards 
ceremony will be shown Ip Chan¬ 
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ITS showtime in the stockroom of 
Hassan’s bazaar in a suburb of Madrid. 
His video dip has been tipped for a top 
five slot on ihe Spanish television equiva¬ 
lent of You’ve Been Framed. There’s 
serious money at stake and some vindica¬ 
tion for the hapless star, a sleazy 
opportunist called Anton who broke his 
wrist and fianened a gypsy when he 
crashed his bike while watching a blonde 
wiggle down the street. 

There’s only one problem. The accident 
looks too good to be true and. in the two- 
faced way in which everyone in Madrid 
seems ro interact in David Planell’s new 
play, Hassan has been asked to re-shoot it 
or lose out Problem: can they reassemble 
the original cast? Can Anton do it with his 
broken wrist? 

The appeal of Planell’s three-hander is 
almost entirely in the relish with which he 
draws his characters. Nicholas Wcwdesnn 
needs little more than a suit to turn 
himself into the tight-fisted SS-year-old 
Arab businessman. Hassan. who scorns 
his Moroccan roots and systematically 
humiliates his disgruntled young neph¬ 
ew, Rashid (dutifully played by Nitzan 
Sharron) for banging out wife “Mows" 
after his-epic 16-hour shifts. “Work is for 


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fish fingers," muses Adrian Edmondson* 
Anton cheerfully. 

This is the second of three staged pieces 
in the Royal Court’s New European 
Writers' Season and what is already 
becoming apparent is how fiendishly 
difficult it is to appropriate the work of 
these young writers without erasing the 
context. But John Clifford's translation 
makes a difficult script sound easy. 

Cultural differences between diameters ■ 
swell like varicose veins as the 20-second 
video dip takes 12 hours to reconstruct. 
Potentially interesting flashpoints are set 
up. but they give way to crude comedy 
when the video veers farcically out of 
control. Ifs probably a saving grace. 


Pfanell tries to put an undue amount of 
moral weight into the bottom end of his 
script by getting Rashid to leaure Hassan 


past. Iris a pretty hopeless piece of ballast 

When it is discovered that Hassan is 
prepared togei on TV at all costs. Bazaar 
suddenly becomes bizarre. Roxana 
SiiberTs production tilts alarmingly one 
way then the other, before lurching to an 
unexpectedly wholesome stop. 

The most-successful moments are fee 
delicious, incidental off-stage details, 
Anton, we hear, fails to hit any of his 
mattresses. Sounding eerily like Alison 
Steadman in Abigail's Party, Edmond¬ 
son’s newly smashed-up stuntman 
emerges tri u mphant for a final round of 
tactless observations. Something far 
darker and more desperate is demanded 
of-Edmondsoriat this point, but it escapes 
him completely. Woodeson has little more 
success as a reborn Moor, and Sbarton’s 

Rashid has the unenviable task of playing 
the conscience of feepfect Bui h is not fee 
ending feat wQI be remembered, it is fee 
endearing wayTlandTs ^ay got 'there 
without crutches. • ’’ 

James Christtopher 


m ur d erer and suicide — 
emerges as an end-of-milleit 
mum version of Buchner’s 
Woyzedc a zonked boy who 
blunders about wreaking hav¬ 
oc without wanting to or 
knowing why. 

Thar’s what makes the chan 
ader and the play interesting 
and disturbing. You believe 
his mother when, just before 
he strangles her, she says feat 
Roberto has been “good for 24 
years". You believe those who 
call him gentle and sweet 
because, as Zubin Varla plays 
fee role, there is always some- 

S vulnerable, earnest and 
d about him. He seems 
to be without motive, ar times 
without identity. When 
people ask him his name, he 
has genuine trouble remem¬ 
bering. He is uncategorisable. 
modern and terrifying. 

I don’t think Koltes comes 
anywhere near proving 
Zucco’s contention that if the 
right switch were pressed, we 
would “all start murdering 
each other". But helped by 
Martin Crimp’s deft transla¬ 
tion and James Macdonald's 
stark, sinister production at 
Strat ford’s Other Place, he 
certainly creates an unsettling 
atmosphere. The world has 
shrunk to a corridor of grey 
light peopled by fee frustrated 
and fee bewildered, fee angry 
and the despairing. Littie 
wonder feat Zucco babbles 
into a phone about wanting to 
be reincarnated as a stray 
dog; little wonder there is 
nobody at fee other end. 

. Wife a drunken father reeF 
mg across the stage threaten* 
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tud oen iris booze and violent 
policemen, tarts and bouncers 
also making their weight felt. 
Koltes’s metropolis has fee 
random, chaotic feel of How¬ 
ard Korder’s New York or fee 
ttondon of our own young 
chroniclers of urban ennui. 

But there are one or two 
scenes that few laie-20th-cen- 
hny pessimists have bettered, 
prime among them one where 
an armed Roberto holds hos- 
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her son. It is not just feat 
ffte deariy finds fee experi¬ 
ence an exhilarating release 
jrom boredom. It is that the 
'rolence occurs to the accom- 
of a chorus of 
woywi* interested 
ly to bickering about their 
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T he whole tiling about. 
euphoria is that you 
are only supposed to 
sample it in tiny- nips 
and delicious sips. It is finger 
food, not something you could 
live off. lest your stomach turn 
to add. It needs to be aug¬ 
mented with progress, 
achievement, reflection, 
knowledge and something 
stodgy and carbohydratey, 
like work. Brirpop, which was 
played entirely on one emo¬ 
tional note — cocaine-induced 
euphoria — was always des¬ 
tined to have a short life. 

It has dated horribly. Any¬ 
thing promoted on Britpop 
iconography seems almost se¬ 
pia-tinted and lame in the 
dying moments of 1997. The 
Spice Girls ~ Union Jade 
dresses. Great British crisps, 
the tabloid version of Britpop 
— come across as exhausted 
kitsch dinosaurs. The big 
Pulp" comeback single. Help 
the Aged, went in at only 
No 9. Echobelly and Sleeper. 
— always die limping, lion- 
fodder - antelopes in the 
Britpop herd — have both 
released catastrophically un¬ 
successful albums. Super- 
grass. despite making one of 
the best albums of the year, 
have seen it sell dismally in 
the ha del as h. Black Grape are 

exriteJ*about Blur have Js^ 
tanced themselves entirely 
from Britpop. 

And Oasis? Well, they are 
hardly dead in the water, 
having sold three million 
copies of Be Here Now, but the 
thrill has gone. When Chris 
Evans—not tbemost intellec¬ 
tually gifted of men. but one 
able to sniff out a cultural 
trend the way rats can scent a 
dropped Big Mac from 800 
yards — tried, and failed, to 
resuscitate a copy of Be Here 
Now with defibrillators on 
TFI Friday, he got it bang on. 
Britpop is dead. 

The real story . behind.. 
Britpop explains why it could 


Britpop is dead 


The jig is up, the hype exposed, 
and now Oasis, Pulp and the rest 
will have to do a proper job 


never have lasted that long. 
Back in 1993. the British 
music industry was in serious 
trouble. Although ft was. as ft 
has always been. Britain’s 
third biggest grosser, the 
trend was definitely down¬ 
ward. Grunge had made Brit¬ 
ish bands seem hopelessly out 
of date and provincial to the 
inte rna tio n al market, and die 
only British acts that were 
selling were the old 
warhorees. — Phil 
Collins, Pink Floyd 
— and one-hit or 
two-hit wonder 
dance artists. The 
industry hated and 
still hales dance 
artists — impossi¬ 
ble to promote, 
short shelf-life, no 
personalities to CAT 

hang merchandise iv>IO 

oft and completely iViVJ 

alienating for any¬ 
one over the age of 30. 

So when Suede came along, 
corduroy trousers full of cred¬ 
ibility, frontman voluble and 
photogenic, and musical ref¬ 
erence points fBowie. Smiths, 
Kate Bush) that got the over¬ 
thirties buying, a Eghtbulb 
appeared over the heads ctf 
die industry. Suede came 
from the “indie" world, so 
maybe there was more of this 
lovely marketable stuff in die 
alternative ghetto. 

Bingo! The indie world 
finally got a big promotional 
push. But not the weirder 
sruff, not sonic experimental¬ 
ists Spiritualized, or die 
Krau track balladeering of Ju¬ 
lian Cope, or the crimplene 
futurism of Stereolab; just the 
retro, comfortingly familiar 
guitar bands. 

And - so Britpop was 
spawned, a movement not 


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bom of any musician-led col¬ 
lectivism. or a groundswefl of 
hew noise, but concaved in 
die sterile pari dish of press 
and marketing, and weaned 
on cocaine. 

The coke euphoria lasted 
two years, and spawned ridic¬ 
ulous claims cm behalf of 
Britpop — that London was 
the coolest city on earth 
(Reykjavik or New York, sure¬ 
ly); that England 
was swinging once 
again (not after 
11pm); and that 
Britain had assert¬ 
ed its “rightful” 
place as the cre¬ 
ative focus of the 
world. 

This was the co¬ 
caine talking it 
UN more than the 

» aKT music could walk 

it While Blur. Oa¬ 
sis er al were sell¬ 
ing well in Japan and Europe. 
America was roundly unfrn- 
pressed by Mod haircuts and 
youthful recycling of the 

Beatles’ back-catalogue—and 
without breaking the Ameri¬ 
can market no act or move¬ 
ment can claim to be a global 
cultural force. 

Still, the teeth-grinding hy¬ 
perbole rolled on. Oasis’s gig 
at Knebworth in 1996 prompt¬ 
ed an editorial in the NME 
claiming that Noe] was “the 
king of the world”, on the 
basis that he was the “most 
important man in Britain”. 
This was ridiculous wishful 
thinking. 

As Etjork explained in a 
recent interview: “All cultures 
— the Romans and die Egyp¬ 
tians and the English and the 
Americans — they all have 
climaxes, and they just want 
to stay there. A hundred years 


ago you had Great Britain, 
which is hilarious if you think 
about n. Can you imagine a 
Great Iceland?” 

Britain’s peak was indeed 
in the late Victorian/early 
Edwardian years. The Sixties 
were a small economic and 
cultural blip. And anyway, as 
hippy dress was based on 
Edwardian clothing, even die 
Sixties were an exercise in 


As Britpop was. in the 
main, nostalgia for the Sixties 
it was. at root, another 
mournful longing for die days 
of Empire and global domi¬ 
nance. This was why cocaine 
was so integral to Britpop. 
Cocaine allows you to believe 
that you are living in the best 
of all possible times, in the 
best of all possible countries; 
rather than accepting that we 
are down the global economic 
table and creatively behind 
the American East Coast hip 
hop collectives. 


B ritain isn’t great any 
more. The Beatles 
could never have ex¬ 
isted in the Nineties. 
John Lennon would have 
shrunk from taking out a 
student loan and gone to work 
an a building she to earn cash. 
Paul McCartney would have 
been on a Restart scheme 
filing papers in a solicitors' 
office. 

Britpop was a little, local 
filing, but we had to pretend it 
was the biggest news since the 
Moan landings because to 
admit that it was merely the 
19th mast exciting cultural 
trend in the past ten years 
would have been to lose face. 

Birarrety, it was the death 
of Princess Diana that finally 
put Britpop into perspective. 
That was global interest in 
Britain. Britpop, by compari¬ 
son, was akin to the retire¬ 
ment of Humphrey the 
Downing Street cat And now 
h is over. What comes next is 
the interesting part 



If s no use begging, Jarvis Cocker; you and the zest of Pulp have had your day. The Britpop bubble has burst 


Tears in spades for the queen of hearts 


VARIOUS ARTISTS . 
Diana, Princess of - **-• - 
Wales Tribute 

(The Diana. Princess of Wales 
Memorial Fund Ltd. ■ 

WR]001052; two discs EI8.99) 
DOUBTLESS we all hold her 
memory dear. And many 
charities will benefit from this 
musical “celebration of the life 
and work of Diana, Princess 
of Wales”. But any album that 
indudes a few new songs and 
a lot of old ones from Sir Cliff 
Richard, Sir Paul McCartney, 
Rod Stewart. Barbra Strei¬ 
sand, Celine Dion. Michael 
Jackson, Queen, Whitney 
Houston, Mari ah Carey. Bry¬ 
an Ferry, Diana Ross, the Bee 
Gees, George Michael, Tina 
Turner. Toni Braxton with 
Kenny G, Gloria Estefan and 
Michael Bolton, most of them 
in full, power-ballad battlecry, 
is going to tax the capacity for 
sentimental gush of even the 
most respectful listener. • j 
There are songs which, in a 
less oppressive context, one 
would not hesitate to describe 
as great: Eric Clapton’s Tears 
in Heaven, R.E.M.’S Every¬ 
body Hurts, Passengers & 
Pavarotti’s Miss Sarajevo, the 
Spice Girls’ Mama, and a 


' static, achingly heautiftil new 
sting by Peter G abriel called 
In the Sun. with the simple, 
heartfelt refrain: “May God’s 
love be with you. always.” 

But file cumulative effect of 
so much emotion leaves pre¬ 
cious little room for either 
musical nuance or an individ¬ 
ual response to these songs. 
The contributions merge into 
one long, stage-managed cri 
de coeur from the pop estab¬ 
lishment that, for all its good 
intentions, is about as stirring 
as a nice pot of tea. 

GARTH BROOKS 

Sevens 

(Capitol 56599 £19.49) 

HIS previous album. Fresh 
Horses, was judged id have 
performed poorly- because it 
sold “only" four million copies 
in America, and the corporate 
structure of Capitol Records 
had to be altered to his 
satisfaction before he would 
allow the record company to 
release Sevens. But despite 
wielding phenomenal dout 
and a business brain as sharp 
as a man-trap, Garth Brooks 
still purveys in his music the 
homespun wisdom of a simple 
country bey on the make. 


TOP TEN ALBUMS 


1 (3) Let’s Talk About Love- 

2 (1) Spteeworid--— 

3 (2) Urban Hymns- 

4 (4) Greatest Hits-.. 

5 (5) Lika You Do--— 

6 (6) Paint the Sky with Stars.... 

7 (7) White on Blonde- 

8 (10) Backstreet's Back-..... 

9 H Left of the Middle-; 

10 (9) Lennon Legend.—-... 

Copyright CIN •ngmeti 


_Celine Dion (Epic) 

_Spice Girls (virgin) 

.....___Verve (Hun 

_Eternal (EMI) 

_Lightning Seeds (Epic) 

__Enya (WEA) 

___Texas (Mercury) 

..Backstreet Boys (Jive) 

.Natalie JmbrugHa (RCA) 

John Lennon (Parfophone) 


NEW POP 
ALBUMS 


"Listen not to the 
critics AVho put their own 
dreams on the shelf*, he 
warns in How You Ever 
Gonna Know, a typically 
aspirational song about fol¬ 
lowing your star. “Heaven’s 
not beyond the clouds/Ift just 
beyond the fear”, he sings in 
Belleau Wood, a dirge about a 
Christmas Day truce between 
First World War troops. 

If the greetings-card senti¬ 
ments tend to grate. Brooks 
still has an unusual flair for 
harnessing the old-fashioned 
virtues of country musk to the 
bland commercial appeal of 
mainstream American rock. 
At its best the formula pro¬ 
duces the sprightly western 
swing of Longneck Bottle. But 
too often the result is mawkish 
country-rock hybrids in which 
the music lacks conviction and 
the mood is. bathed in croco¬ 
dile tears. 

VARIOUS ARTISTS 
Chemical Reaction 
(Afrodesia Music AFRCD01 
£9.99) 

IT IS no accident that the 
Chemical Brothers have done 
more than any other act, bar 
file Prodigy, to introduce 
hardcore dance music to the 
rock mainstream. Although 
unmistakably of the moment 


the Chemicals’ propulsive 
drum sound is one with whidi 
lovers of the great funk and 
rock acts of the past can 
readily identify. 

Their influence in the dance 
world can be gauged by the 
way in which other artists 
have emulated their hard, 
choppy “big beat" style. And 
an Chemical Reaction a 
bunch of rare Chemical Broth¬ 
ers mixes dating back to 1993 
of songs including Primal 
Scream’s Jailbird. Lefifield’S 
Open Up and Saint Etienne’S 
like a Motorway are seam¬ 
lessly interspersed with cuts 
by British underground acts 
such as Depth Charge 
(Shaolin Buddha Finger). 
Aphrodite lAphromoods) and 
Dirty Beatniks (Don’t Stop). 

The sound of these various 
artists is so compatible you 
would think it was the Chemi¬ 
cals at the helm the whole way 
through, although, ironically, 
die best drum track is by the 
duo jRreaknflcs on their num¬ 
ber Uncivilized World, a brut¬ 
ish funk shakedown of 
surpassing energy and 
urgency. 


SQUAREPUSHER 
Bumingn’n Tree 
(Warp WARPCD S3 EI4.49) 

A COMPILATION of 12 unti¬ 
tled instrumental tracks, 
Bumingn’n Tree is a handy 
introduction to the maverick 
genius of Tom Jenkinson. the 
22-year-old bass player and 
programmer from Chelms¬ 
ford otherwise known as 
Squarepusher. 

Although his audience com¬ 
prises devotees of drum and 
bass and other forms of mod¬ 
em eiearonica. Jenkin son’s 
outrageously fast and fluent 
bass playing style is redolent 
of 1970s jazz fusionists. 
Jenkinson is also the only 
musician I have come across 
who will programme a drum 
machine to play a swing ride 
cymbal pattern and Elvin 
Jones-style snare and bass- 
drum breaks — as he does 
here on Track 7 — before 
plastering a disco bass line 
and old-fashioned electric 
piano sound on top. It’s a 
delirious, free-form, yet highly 
evolved concoction. 

David Sinclair 


THE CHARLATANS haven’t 
had it easy. Nervous break¬ 
downs, creative blackouts and 
critical maulings may be oc¬ 
cupational hazards When you 
are in a rock'n’roll band, but 
the death last year of key¬ 
board player Rob Coffins in a 
road accident was a tragedy 
that took the story beyond the 
dimensions of Spinal Tap. 

The band contemplated 
packing it in there and then, 
perswered. To their eternal 
credit, they returned reinvigo¬ 
rated and with a renewed 
sense of purpose, releasing 
the most assured album of 
their career earlier this year, 
the chart-topping TelUn' Sto¬ 
ries. As their resilience has 
grown, so has their fan base, 
with this sell-out show at the 
Olympia marking the open¬ 
ing night of a tour that 
finishes next month in the 
12,000-capacity Docklands 
Arena in London. 

But this is an altogether 
more intimate setting — a 
theatre, not an amphitheatre, 
albeit one with the seats 
removed — and there was a 
real warmth in the audience’s 
greeting of the band that was 
men channelled directly into 
the group's performance. 

With No Shoes is followed 
directly by North Country 


Frauds 
to have 
faith in 


LIVE GIG 


Ch ar l at ans^ 

:r\ 7, 

Boy — an exhilarating start 
Singer Tim Burgess either 
struts and swaggers around 
the stage, or else he stays put 
his dreamy vocals delivered 
with one hand in his pocket as 
though he were waiting for 
the bus. 

There is a real kick to the 
music. The Charlatans are 
very much a group effort as 
opposed to being merely a 
frontman with four sidekicks. 
An assertive rhythm section, 
the wah-wah wail of Mark 
Collins's guitar and the tem¬ 
pestuous Wuriitzer of new 
keyboard player Tony Rogers 
all combined to strike up a 
soulful blues-inflected rock 
groove redolent of the Rolling 


Stones circa Sympathy for the 
Devil and, as has been noted 
once or twice, the Stone 
Roses. 

But if it's true that the 
Charlatans initially rode in 
the slipstream of their North¬ 
ern brethren’s success when 
they first appeared in 1990. 
they have stayed true to their 
vision and resisted file temp¬ 
tation to be blown off course 
by the fickle winds of fashion. 
There are signs of a slight 
stylistic shift: a gloriously 
inept one note harmonica 
break is pure Bob Dylan and 
there are flashes of Led Zep¬ 
pelin in some of the guitar 
riffs. But mostly the Charla¬ 
tans stick to what they know 
best 

The blustering organ and 
shimmering guitars of 
Weirdo, the full-throttle boo¬ 
gie of Just When You're 
Thinkin' Things Over and, 
during the encores, a floor¬ 
shaking version of How High 
are aff evidence of a band in 
complete command of its art. 

The Christmas lights on 
stage suggested a band in an 
upbeat, celebratory mood. 
Who can blame them? On this 
form they have got a lot to 
smile about. 

Nick Kelly 


Paul Simon's first new album in six years 




















































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40 ARTS MUSIC 


LONDON 

HAMLET Alai Jennings plava the 
Prince m Mafflww Warchus's peMuction 
rjp Iran Kratftwd Wffli De/bfto Cratry 
3S Gpneiia. Paul Freeman 35 Oaudiui 
BorMcan. sun Street. London EC? 
rain -63a 08911. Previews homtontJiL 
7.1Spm. Opens Dec 4.7pm. In rep S 

FINNISH JAZZ; The cream tf 
Fmiml's [SS musicians. Bw UMO Big 
Band. iotas tomes wen mo of 
England s leaarg names ot me genre, 
pans; and composer Django Bales 
andraMpriPonaiJohnSurman bran 
Evening of aftsong and snnwatwe 
mtK*c-m*ng Part ol Lrio Valo tesuual at 
Rmisri culture. 

Barbican SdH Street. £CE (0171 -659 
0891) Torogm. 7 53pm © 

LEONCE AND LENA. Cnnsiopher 
Stai-ws anO Sarah BsJctw pfay me toys! 
lorere m the »*<» tamiiar cv Budviw's 
ihree ptayi. Cttnd FardrecE Lee Hairs 
new version, done as a musical 
Gala Theatre. Pmce Albert Pub. 11 
PemondgeRoad, Wll i0l 71.239 0706] 
Previews tomqht and tonwrow. 

7 30cm opens Man. 7.30pm Then 
MorvSJI. 7 30pm Until Dec 33 

PROKOFIEV FESTIVAL: Russian 
conductor Afcwanda Lazar* veils the 
Soctti Bar* Bus weekend to conduct 
me | iw tin prujnarmtjnic Orchestra rr 
nso concern exploring tte muse ol his 
composer compatnM Tamghr's 
programme teaiieas Vioim Concerto 
No 1 and Cncwi On Sunday me 
acclaimed pianist Nikolai Dermdento 
toms the arenastra to perform a selection 
ol irons Inctudrio Pian:< Concerto 
NaS 

Festival Han South Bank. SEl [0171- 
960 ->2*2) Tonight and Sun. 7 30pm © 

ELSEWHERE 

EDINBURGH Russell Hunter plays The 
title raid m James Cxjthte s Grata. His 
rueco becomes the rirsl saleswoman at 
Petertisad ftsh mar*-a: while tie charters 


□ BAZAAR A Moroccan imimgram in 
Spain longs to bacome famous in David 
PlaneTs play, pan ol the New 
European Writing season W3h Adrian 
Edmondson Ncan Snarron and 
Nicholas Woodeson See review. p 38. 
Royal Court Upstates (Ambassadore). 
West Sr. WCC10171-565 5000) Tamgtir 
and i'omonow. 8pm. In rep 

E BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 

Disney's film umed Wo a hit Broadway 
rnisnal Jufca-Aianan Bnghtan and 
Alasdair Harvey as the leads, with 
support trom the %kes ol Dare*. Grtfttfa 
and Norman Rossnglon 
Dominion Toftonharn Court Road. W1 
(0171-416 6060) Mon-Sat. 7.30pm.mat 
SflL 2.30pm 

□ THE BG VS IN THE BAND: Marl 
Crowley's <gmi^<d-btaak>ig gay play 
tmm 1968 now something of a penod 
piece with its 'gay means witty but 
wretched' message Transler horn the 
hang's Head. Islington. 

Aldnych. The AkJwych. 1AfC2 (0171- 
416 60Qj| hAjn-Set. 8pm: mats Thur 
and Sat. 3pm 

Q BUGSY MALONE: The cae of the 
National Youth Music Theatre fire thee 
splurge-guns n me spoof gangster 
musical derived irom Alan Parker's 
movts Jeremy Taylor directs 
Queens, Shaftesbury Avenue. WJ 
(0171-4945041) Mon-Sal, 7 30 (Nov 
21 8 tSom) mats Wed and Sal 
2 30pm Unti Jan 10 

■ THE CHAIRS. Richard Bears, aid 
GwaWine McEwan play the ancient 
coijp-te warring lor their important 
guests n Ionesco s celebrated “tragic 
lares' . Simon McBumey dveas lor 
Compijciie 


WEEKEND CHOICE 


A dully guide to arm 
and enteitabunent 

compiled by Mmtt Hargle 


on about he Camaty Slieffl tash<on 
boutflue long ago John Tiffany c&acta 
what IS said to be si euraoresnaty play 
about an ordinary lam By. 

Traverse, Cambridge Street. 

Edrbutgh i0131-22B 14041 Pravwws 
rorngih-Sun, 8pm Opens Tub, Bpm 
ThenTue-Sun,8pm Und0ec20.© 
HUDDERSFIELD: A pacted 
programme at the laaiva) this weekend 
oflars dance as wefl as music. Tonight 
ai the Lawrence Beffley Theatre (7 30pm) 
me Kchard Alston Dance Company 

performs works sel to music ty Brrtwofle 



Joanna MacGregor at the 
Huddersfield Festival 


THEATRE GUIDE 


Joramy Kingston's assessment 
of theatre showing bi London 
■ House fufl, return* only 
B Soma Mats available 
□ Seats at ah prices 


Royal Crust Downstairs (Dufca Ot 
Yates). St Martin's Lane. WC2 Ipl7l • 
505 5000) Mon-SaL 7 30pm; mat Sal, 
330pm © 

■ CHICAGO Revised version olthe 
celebrated hander & Ebb musical 
dreofid by Waller Bottom A muh-Tony 
vwnnsr on Bn?adway last year Starring 
Ruthie Her shall, Lite Lemper. Henry 
Goodman and Nigel Planer 
ArMphl. Strand. London WC2 [0171- 
344 0055). Mon-Sat, 8pm. mats Wed 
and Sar. 2 30pm © 

fZ A GRAND NIGHT OUT Walton 
and Gromit take to the stage for 
Christmas, pursued to London by [ha 
Penguin, escaped from gaol and bent 
on revenge 

Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, oil 
Kyigsway. WC210171-494 5090). Mon- 
Sai. 7.30pm; mat Sat. 3pm 
□ AN IDEAL HUSBAND Return of 
Peier Hafi's enjoyable production, 
brmtui of deceptions Starring Marin 
Shaw. Simon Ward and Kara O'Mare. 
Gielgud, Shaftesbury Aw. WUQ171- 
494 50651 Mon-Sat 7 45pm; mats Thur 
3pm and SaL 4pm 

■ THE INVENTION OF LOVE'Tom 
Stoppard's new play with John Wood as 


and XAnakB. Tonwrow af the Town 
Hal (730pm) the BBC PUftarmorfc 
Orchestra, n» Now London Chamber 
Choir and ins Univensty ol Huddereaold 
Chorus under OtoriaaZaeharto 
Bomsian perform wori® ndudtng UK 
pramiaes by Gerard Grtsey and 
Xenaas WMi Joanna MacGregor, plana 
OvrgtoXenatas'atang 
Bness Die progra mm e (or Ihe 
conoudng concert of ihe festival the 
London SMdntaOa's 75th birthday 
inbuta to the corapraa on Sunday 
(Town Ha#, 7.30pm), has Deer 

changed. Instead of ihe eonceno 
scheduled, the percussonot Evelyn 
GJennie ml now perform d shorter vrorK 
Omega, by Xenatas. Further UK 
ptemtarBG, by VMer Bouchara, David del 
Puerto oral Pascal IXsapir com piste 
Ihe evenng. Marcus Sterc conducts. 
Huddersfield Contemporary MuNc 
Festival (01484 425082) 

LEEDS: Ian Talbot directB the Eamoua 

Joseph Papp version otGIbofr 4 
Subvan's The Pirates of Penzance 
Jeremy Hanson pwys the Pirate King 
and Paid Bentley the Major General 
West Yorkshire Playhouse The 
Qusry, m Mourt. Leeds (QV1M44 
2111). Previews (mm tomorrow. 

7 30pm. Opens Dec 4,7 30pm Then 
Mon-Sat, 7.30pm, mats Thur and Sa, 
2pm. Until Jen 24 (B 

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plays the young Housmai 
National (Cotrestoe). South Bank. SE1 
'0171 -928 2262) & Tonight and 
tomorrow, 7.30pm: mat tomorrow. 

2 30pm In rep 

D SCISSOR HAPPY Comedy 
whodumB where Die autSance can play 
detective. Adapted by Net) MuBertey. 
Lee Simpson and Jim Sweeney tram the 
US fong-omer Shear Madnesa 
Duchess. Catherine Street, WC2 
(0171-494 5075) PyfcmFri, 8pm: Sal. 

5 30pm. 8.30pm: mat Wed. 230pm 
S3 THE SLOW DRAG: Jazz musical by 
Careen Krelwr. loosely baaed on the 
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Vivian Tierney's Letter Scene “held the house breathless, with much furtive fumbling for handkerchiefs”—and this in her first ever Tatyana 

All this, and voices too ’ 


J ulia Hollander’s three- 
year-old production of 
Tchaikovsky's opera has 
been substantially re¬ 
cast relit and redirected, and 
is immeasurably improved. 
There are some easily eradica¬ 
ble over-busy effects, but this 
is now a more than respect¬ 
able framework for regular 
revivals of a standard reper¬ 
tory piece. 

On Wednesday it was 
graced by two outstanding 
performances. Vivian Tierney 
is an intensely physical per¬ 
former with body language as 
expressive as that of a dancer 
— more than once she was 
uncannily reminiscent of Fon¬ 
teyn as Juliet. The set of her 
head on one of the most 
eloquent necks in the business, 
an arm movement, or a 


minute change of facial ex 1 
pression all tell you with 
uncomforable precision about 
Tatyana's feelings at any given 
moment 

Add to this singing that is 
equally expressive, with sensi¬ 
tively shaped musical lines 
emerging through radiant 
tone and crystal-dear diction, 
and in an opera largely about 
strength of feeling you have a 
performance of almost un¬ 
bearable intensity. Her Letter 
Scene held the house breath¬ 
less. with much furtive fum¬ 
bling for handkerchiefs. And 
this is her first Tatyana: what 
her portrayal wilt be like in 
five years hardly bears think¬ 
ing about 

The second winner is NeQi 
Archer, for some years an 
accomplished and likeable art¬ 





ist, but one who with his first 
Lensky takes the Great Leap 
Forward. Again, his body 
language suggests for more 
than just the wispy romantic 
poet; there's an egotistical 
sulkiness as well, and his 
sitting, half-slumped, in pro¬ 
file before his aria speaks 
volumes about the tragedy of 
self-awareness, too late. 

His tenor has fined out a 
great deal, and rang out 
excitingly-in the few big mo¬ 
ments — all manner of bigger 
roles are now within his reach 
— but it was his rapt soft 
singing in succulent halfvoice 
that gripped the imagination. 


Beside these two the Ameri¬ 
can baritone Andrew Schroe- 
der. malting his UK debut 
after successes on the Conti¬ 
nent and America, seemed 
oddly underpowered, almost 
anonymous — one suspected 
an . unannounced, indisposi¬ 
tion. His Onegin simply 
wasn't “big” enough, of voice 
or personality, for tire house. 

But with contributions of the 
stature of John Connell' (the 
sonorous Gremin); Nuala Wil¬ 
lis (another very “physical" 
performer as the Nurse), 
Christine Rice , (the bouncy — 
too bouncy? — Olga) and 
Marie Richardson, in the tiny 
role ol Zaretsky, there was 
plenty of weight-making from 
the ensemble- 

Far be it from anyone to 
criticise a conductor hum St 


Petersburg in this of all op¬ 
eras, but Alexander Pblia- 
nichko certainly doesn't huny; 
when he’s giving space for 
artists like Tierney and Archer 
to expand into, it works well, 
but elsewhere his reading can 
hang fire. 

There is a beastly outbreak 
of coy ballet in the first act that 
has to go. and John Graham 
Hall is encouraged to turn 
Triquers aria into a three-act 
operetta. And [To not too sure 
about tiie materialisation of 
“the spectre of my murdered 
friend" in St Petersburg. But if 
it can accommodate perfor¬ 
mances as unmissable as 
Tierney’s and Archer's, then 
Hollander’s production will 
do nicely. 

Rodney Milnes 


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CONCERTS: Sibelius symphony cycle bears repetition; harmonious birthday celebrations 


Calm before 
the storm 

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NO JUSTIFICATION is ever needed 
for a cycle of Sibelius symphonies. The 
great Finn's symphonic achievement 
stands equal to that of Beethoven and 
Bruckner. But if any doubts still 
lingered about the London Symphony 
Orchestra’s decision to mark the 
Barbican’s Finnish festival with a 
repeat cycle, rather ihan by exploring 
fresh aspects of that country’s musical 
richness, they were swept away in the 
jpenultimare concert of the series. 

And "swept" is the right word: Colin 
Davis and the orchestra have built up 
considerable momentum as the cycle 
has progressed. Here, Davis unfolded 
the Sixth Symphony so seamlessly that 
each movement's sudden end crept up 
surprisingly fast Bur he also caught 


the serenity of the music, although 
never at the expense of its natural flow. 
The melancholy that characterises 
most of Sibelius’s music is transformed 
into wistfulness in this work, and fight- 
broke though at every turn. in. this 
radiant performance. -• 

By contrast' the Seventh' air 

almost spiritual solemnity.' Davis 
adopted broad tempos, enabling the 
orchestra to revel in the dense textures 
of the score: but the slow, unstoppable 
force of their account led with complete 
logic to the resolution of this single 
span of music, a dignified dose that 
makes one realise why Sibelius was 
unable to continue into his projected 
Eighth Symphony. 

The underlying calm of these works 
is for removed from the despair of the 
Violin Concerto, especially when it is 
performed as tempestuously as here by 
Anne-Sophie Matter. She began on a 
thread of tone, but soon abandoned her 
characteristic poise to play with fer¬ 
vour. I^rhaps she dug too angrily into 
the finale, but anything less intense 
would have seemed anti-dimactic after 
the first two movements. 

John Allison 


Local band 
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THIRTY years after he formed his 
Camden Chamber Orchestra, which 
soon became the Orchestra of St 
John'S, Smith Square, John Lubbock- 
conducted a gala anniversary concert 
for an audience of evidently devoted 
followers who have watched it grow 
from a local venture into an ensemble . 
of deservedly international reputation. 

Along the way it has played its part 
in fostering a number of new works, 
but tiie anniversary programme was 
confined to favourite classics, culmi¬ 
nating in Beethoven's Ninth Sympho¬ 
ny. For this the orchestra was joined by. 
its associated eponymous choir. Some- 
tiling of a three-dimensional effect was 
achieved by having the male singers 
standing behind and raised above the 


o rchestra, with the women disposed in 
the upper galleries on either side. 

Their singing in the final movement 
added a corona of vocal vitality to the 
orchestra, which Lubbock endowed 
vrith a suitably celebratory spirit. His 
singular merit is that he listens to and 
•shapes the music's inner voices as well 
as its dominant melodic line, which 
made for an eloquent slow movement 
after an almost martial scherzo. Anne 
O’Byrne, an Irish soprano, added a 
silvery top line to Christine Cairns, 
Justin Lavender and Robert Hayward 
as the other accomplished soloists. 

In the earlier part of the programme 
Marisa Robles brought her harp for a 
light-fingered account of Rodrigo’s 
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intended guitar, but confined to the 
always beguiling slow middle move¬ 
ment Presumably this was to give time 
for John L01 to battle his way 
pianistically through Rachmaninov’s 
Paganini Rhapsody, which he did with 
aplomb. If not quite a celebration of all 
tiie talents, there were enough on 
display to make a jubilant anniversary. 

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Michael Kuhn, the man behind iten/z and 
Four Weddings, now wants to take on the 
world. Interview by Raymond S noddy 


M ichael Kuhn is eagerly look¬ 
ing forward to the glitzy 
London premiere at die 
Odeon Leicester Square on 
Tuesday of PolyGranTs latest movie. The 
Borrowers. He has no idea whether it wfl} 
make anything like as much money as 
PolyGram’s biggest hit Four Weddings 
and a Funeral, or pack diem in as 
unexpectedly in America as Rdwan Atkin¬ 
son's Bean is now doing. But it is an 
important departure for the company all 
the same, 

“It's our first real special-effects movie 
— and all made here — and I think it's 
come out just great and we are very 


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push in America. It's like a major Disney 
launch." says the 49-year-oJd Cambridge- 
educated lawyer, who 
. now spends most of his 
life in Hollywood mixing 
; it with the top studio 
bosses. 

The Borrowers, a 
Working Title Films pro¬ 
duction — like Four 
Weddings and Bean —is 
an adventure story for . 
children and adults that . 
charts the trials and .tribulations of a 
’ family of 4in people who Eve under the 
floorboards of a lifesized-house and 
“borrow" what they need to survive. 

For PolyG ram the happenings off¬ 
screen on The Borrowers are almost as 
important as the quality of the special 
effects. The $30 million movie is being 
backed by full-scale Hollywood market¬ 
ing costs, worldwide distribution and 
lavish parties featuring the outsized props 
from die film. 

No opportunity is being missed to line 
up commercial tie-ins with all the domes¬ 
tic products borrowed or used. When the 
little borrowers are trapped in the family 
refrigerator, the attention to detail incudes 
the inclusion of Dreyeris American ice¬ 
cream. “You have to think of these tilings 
way. way in advance but this is what you 
have to do if you want to be ccxnpditive in 
America," says Kuhn, executive vice- 
president of PolyG ram and president of 
PblyGram Filmed Entertainment. 

His target is the $40 billion annual 
world cinema market; making small 
cultural films is not the way to reach it 
and he regards the agonising by. critics 
over what is or is not a British film as 
“completely ridiculous and stupid". As 
Kuhn sees iu the issue is: “How can we 
repatriate to the UK as much production 
as possible and how can we make Europe 
have at least one or two studios that are 
able to compete with Hollywood?" 


The battle, he believes, is not just about 
winning Oscars but the power that the 
content conveys. Movies are one of the 
determinant factors behind who controls 
cable and satellite television — and the 
world of 200-channel digital television 
already launched in America and due to 
begin in the UK in late spring. 

The PolyGiam chief been trying to 
persuade the European Commission to 
create a 100 to 200 million ecu film- 
guarantee fund, which he believes could 
generate a billion ecus of European 
production money. 

With his colleague Stewart TILL Kuhn 
has also been trying to persuade the 
British Government to prod the City into 
creating a currency-hedge fund to even 
out the dollar-pound exchange rates far 
Hollywood film-makers. 
“If the pound goes up to 
$1.70, producers are 
going to go off to Marra¬ 
kesh. If it goes down to 
$1.40 it's great to film in 
England, and Finewood 
is bursting at the 
seams," says Kuhn. 

Ten years ago the 

f prospect of PblyGram 

and Kuhn being in a position to influence 
the politics and economics of the Euro- 
pean film iadustry. topping the US film 
charts told bringing in revenues of $1 
billion a year would have seemed as likely 
as a tii family living under the 
floorboards. 

It has been a ten-year process of slowly 
budding - PblyGram Famed Entertain¬ 
ment and making sure that the inevitable 
“turkeys” didn’t lose too much: the 
organisation has painful corporate mem¬ 
ories of PblyGram’s disastrous foray into 
movies in the 1970s. 

For Kuhn, the key was reading My 
Indecision is Final, requiem to a former 
high-flying British film company, 
Goldcrest, by Terry Hott and Jake Eberts. 

There Kuhn found -what he considered 
to be the blueprint for setting up a 
Hollywood studio without the real estate, 
by doing things differently from 
Goldcrest m every respect 

Kuhn derided H was essential both to 
have serious capital to compete in the 
Hollywood league — $1 billion to $2 
billion oyer time — and to possess your 
own distribution system; otherwise, even 
when you have a hit, most of the profit 
leaks out to middlemen. 

“It was also implied in the book that 
there are two businesses in film, there are 
cultural films and there are Hollywood 
films, and the business is realty Holly¬ 
wood films. If you don’t make that 





PotyGranTs Michael Kuhn: making small, quaintly British cultural films will not conquer the world markets 


distinction you get yourself in real 
trouble," says Kuhn. 

From the business point of view, 
PoIyGram’s competitive advantage 
turned out to be its ability to adapt its 
international record-distribution network 
to distribute films. 

It has still been a hard struggle over ten 
years with, even now, no absolute 
certainly of success. 


F or his first project, Kuhn asked 
some people he knew in Los 
Angeles to make, for $1 million, a 
film that featured a car chase, an 
explosion and a fight. Both the American 
and international rights of the resuiting 
movie. Private Investigation, were sold at 
a profit and “we took our money and ran", 
he says. 

It was a far cry from more recent 
PolyGram productions such as Fargo, 
The Usual Suspects, Dead Man Walking 
and Trainspotting. But there has been a 
catalogue of flops as well. For five years. 
Working Title produced nothing that 
worked — even though they were often 
producing three or tour films a year. 
Kuhn grimaces at the memory of one of 
them, Chicago Jo and the Showgirl. 


“Much of my job is to structure the 
company to allow people to fail. I never 
thought of dumping them, because I 
believed in them. But obviously ail the 
time you have to judge it and say when 
enough enough," he says. 

Even now, after ten years, the company 
has not yet broken into profit, although 
Kuhn hopes this may be only one or two 
years away. He plans to gear up 
production, from the current 12 to 14 films 
a year, to 16 a year — of which around 
eight will be for widescale release. Buying 
a bade catalogue of films would also help 
the push towards profit, although so far 
PolyGram has been outbid whenever a 
deal has come up. 

Profits may not yet have arrived at 
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, despite 
an investment of around $900 million — 
not counting off-balance-sheer financing 
— but Kuhn believes that if you add the 
value of its growing film library, the 
return an investment is already 20 per 
cent, and that is before you add on 
anything for the digiial revolution. 

And as one of the legion of “suits" who 
now run virtually all the Hollywood 
studios — albeit a suit with a sense of 
irony and a touch of sardonic humour — 


Kuhn will happily set out a mathematical 
formula for success in the movie business. 

Happiness among the bean-counters of 
the movie business is an average “rental 
to native ration" — the amount received 
from theatrical exploitation of a movie 
compared with the cost of malting it — of 
130 per cent. . 

PolyGram started off at SO per cent and 
reached 90 per cent last year. Kuhn thinks 
he will hit the Hollywood average of 130 
per cent within two years. 

He even likes the look of two new 
movies now in production: Elizabeth. 
about Elizabeth I. from Working Title, 
and a Stephen Freers western now being 
shot in Santa Ft 

Looking back. Kuhn says he is amazed 
how PblyGram has become a real force in 
the business: it now earns more than $1 
billion a year ir. revenues, with growth 
rates of 20 per cent, and has its own 
distribution in 13 countries, accounting 
for 70-80 per cent of all film revenues. 

“In the next two years we will get some 
catalogue, then we will have achieved 
what no one has achieved since the war 
which ts to build a new studio — and 
make some profits." says Kuhn before 
dissolving into laugher. 


Santa’s TV 
surprise for 
Falklands 

Meg Carter 

explains how UK 
TV is reaching out 

C hristmas usually comes in 
mid-January for civilians and 
Forces based in the Falk¬ 
lands. The islands' television service 
screens videos, flown from London 
to Port Stanley via Ascension Island, 
up to two weeks after programmes 
are broadcast in the UK. 

All this will change on Monday, 
when live broadcasts start. For the 
first rime, islanders will be able to 
watch EostEnders and Coronation 
Street on the day they go out in the 
UK. They will also get live news 
from the BBC and JTN. and selected 
five Premier League football cover¬ 
age from Sky, as well as the chance 
to participate in a local news 
programme. Scene Here. 

The news service is run by the 
British Forces Broadcasting Service 
(BFBS). which last year had its 
£60 million contract to supply TV to 
British Forces stationed around the 
world renewed for five more years 
by the Defence Ministiy. Islanders 
and the military subsequently 
agreed extra funding to enhance the 
Falklands' tape-based TV service 
and to make use of a more powerful 
Intelsat satellite. 

“It's a quantum leap forward," 
says Dusty Miller, station manager 
for BE^S TV and radio in the 
Falklands. “ Previously, we’ve had to 
edit out anything particularly time- 
sensitive. such as sport and news. 
Until now. the Falklands have been 
a logistical nightmare. They are the 
size of Wales, with the population of 
Swansea and the terrain of Dart¬ 
moor. Five thousand people are split 
between the Mount Pleasant mili¬ 
tary base and the capital. Stanley. A 
further S00 are scattered elsewhere." 

P eter McDonagh. the BFBS's 
director, says that going live 
was a “high welfare priority" 
and it was also about broadcasting 
choice; Islanders have their own 
newspaper. The Penguin News, but 
the only alternative to BFBS's tape- 
based TV sendee is KTV, a small 
satellite TV service recently 
launched by a local entrepreneur. 
KTV broadcasts American pro¬ 
grammes from Chile to viewers in 
Port Stanley. 

Radio has also been limited. 
BFBS provides two Forces stations 
to army bases around the world — 
BFBS I, a Radio 1-style format and 
BFBS 2. a Radio 2-Radio 4 hybrid. 
Until now, Falklanders have had 
only one service — a blend of 
BFBS 2. Radio 5 Live and BBC 
World Service, broadcast on FM 
and medium wave for most of each 
day. The volunteer-run Falklands 
Islands Broadcasting Service pro¬ 
vides local programming on FM 
every evening. 

The new 24-hour satellite link 
with the UK provides six new audio 
channels. From Monday, islanders 
will be able to hear BFBS 2 on me¬ 
dium wave around the dock, and 
BFBS 1 on FM. It wifi also enable 
BFBS to increase its daily TV output 
from 11 to 18 hours. 

Mr Miller says: “The live TV 
schedule will be put together in the 
UK. taking the most popular pro¬ 
grammes from all terrestrial chan¬ 
nels. as wril as news and sport. We 
have a camera and cameraman here 
and we hope to submit more 
material to Scene Hear. 

“The next step must be the 
Internet- Cable & Wireless, which 
supplies the Falklands with tele¬ 
phone and teleomunicadons. is 
looking into it" 


Reaction to movie could spawn a string of Beans 


■ MR BEAN is now causing chaos in Hollywood. The global 
success of Bean, the movie — box-office takings $200 million 
— m eans huge pressure for a follow-up. But will Rowan 
Atkinson oblige with Bean 2P. Peter Beonett-Jbnes, joint- 
producer with Tun Sevan, flunks not 
“Hollywood can’t understand why w don’t want to 
capitalise on our success." he says. But Atkinson is taking a 
ye £r off. “Hell be polishing his (vast) collection of care." says 
Bennett-Jones. whose Tiger Aspect comiw^broaght Mr 
Bean to British television screens m 1990 and developed the 

^^t the Bean team, inducting writers Richard Curtis and 
Robin DriscolL docs want to develop Mm further — as a 
cartoon character. “Realty, he’s a cbddren’s character toy 
fove his selfishness and ability to create dtaos. Crertivdy, it 
wnuld be very liberating. In a cartoon we can take him to all 
sorts of new places, for example^^- rays B^nett-Jonet. 
Mr Bean to fix the Mir space station? It's an awful tonight 



Mr Bean: 


. could he soon be cauang chaos in space? 


■ AT THE Royal Television 
Society dinner this week, the 
speaker- Marie Thompson, 
Controller of BBC2, was 
asked a mischieviaus ques¬ 
tion try Tom Gutteridge, 
Anneka Rioe’s producer. “If 
you were allowed to, where 
would you move Newmightt " 
Chairman Tony Hall, chief 
executive of BBC News, imm¬ 
ediately jumped up to rule 
that Thompson didn't have to 
reply. But senior broadcast¬ 
ers rushed to fill me in 
afterwards. Thompson would 
love to move Newsnight from 
10.30pm to 11pm, they said, 
freeing him to schedule a 
wider range of aduft enter¬ 
tainment Newsnight could 
then expand into a 60-minute 
news/late review. After all. 
Panorama has been moved to 
10pm. But from Hall’s reac¬ 
tion, it looks off-limits. 

■ WHAT is happening to 
The. Independent! It’S surely 
too new a paper to be sinking 
into senility? This week. 
Miles Kington’s Monday col¬ 
umn was reprinted again Ml 

‘ Tuesday. The regular, fluent 
Monday column from its 
media editor. Rob Brown, 
seemed oddly stale: it was 
recycled from the week be¬ 
fore, last Saturday’s Weasel 
diary in The Independent's 
magazine carried an elabo¬ 
rate apology: the entry for 


mmimm 

mmmm 


November 15 was a reprint of 
the previous week's. Perhaps 
the Editor, Andrew Marr. 
belongs to the (late) John 
Junor school of journalism? 
When Editor of the Sunday 
Express, he said: “I really 
think people would be happi¬ 
est with the same newspaper 
every week." He practised 
what he preached too — 
between 1954 and 7986 the 
paper served up the same 
unfailing recipe: siariets jet¬ 
ting off to the sun, the 
Crossbencher column, a 
Giles cartoon. But Indepen¬ 
dent staffers say the once- 
great paper, with costs cut to 
the bane, simply doesn’t have 
enough staff to check that the 
pages are correct. Sad. 

■ WHEN John Brown, self- 
made publisher of Viz. held a 
10-year birthday party last 
week. Ed Bye, husband of 
Ruby Wax, wot the raffle 
two tickets to New York- A 
voice piped up that this was 
unfair “He gets free trips 
anyway." John Brown drew 


again, and a needier media 
foot soldier got the seats. 

■ RESEARCH from Channel 
4 has revealed the profile of the 
viewers to whom chief execu¬ 
tive Michael Jackson must 
appeal I reprint it. with apolo¬ 
gies to Rudyard Kipling. 

If you ear mainly vegetari¬ 
an jood 

And think its worth paying 
more for organic fruit ana 
veg 

Ifvou dream of holidays off 
the beaten track. 

Yet humbly queue with 
crowds before the cinema 
doors, 

If you read labels on food 
to check for additives. 

But cannot resist buying 
those escapist magazines. 

If you can spend the unfor¬ 
giving minute 
With 60 seconds' worth of 
shopping on the Net 
Yours are the eyeballs 
Channel 4 has conquered 
And — which is more — 
you're the Mpdem Media 
Person. 


The only way is up 

■ DAWN AIREY. Channel 5’s gutsy pro¬ 
gramme director, most prominent woman in 
mainstream television, has wrung a crucial 
commitment to her career advancement from 
shareholders Lord Hoi lick and Greg Dyke. 

In return for spuming an offer from 
Elisabeth Murdoch, to mastermind a big 
expansion of general entertainment satellite 
service Sky 1. they are sending her to Harvard 
Business School to burnish her management 
skills. Tins is the same course which Dyke 
took before transforming himself from Ro¬ 
land Rat's Dad to managing director of 
London Weekend Television, multimillion¬ 
aire. and Pearson’s TV deal-maker, and 
which John Birt was about to go on when the 
BBC recruited him to be its eventual Director- 
General (he compensates with one-to-one 
tutorials with top management gurus). Chan¬ 
nel 4’s Michael Jackson took a similar course. 
“I'm sure Dawn wflJ be a chief executive 
somewhere." says David Elstein, Channel 5’s 
sitky-tongued chief executive. 



Harvard-bound: Dawn Airey 


■ THE BBC’s mad internal 
market has been rightly ridi¬ 
culed for charging pro¬ 
gramme-makers £20 a time 
for a peek at Who's Who or 
for borrowing a CD, forcing 
humble researchers into time- 
wasting journeys to free 
libraries. 

Now MU Wyatt, pragmatic 
diief executive of BBC Broad¬ 
cast, has acted. His policy 
paper suggests that each BBC 
department pays an annual 
joining fee to the 


library/archive systems, 
slashing requests for research 
to about £3 or so. 

Common sense takes so 
lung to triumph at the BBC. 

■ UPDATE on the British 
Him Institute’s controversial 
new £20 million iMAX cine¬ 
ma. under construction at the 
Waterloo traffic roundabout 
Newly appointed BF1 secre¬ 
tary John Woodward, who 
has inherited the plan from 
outgoing chairman film pro¬ 


ducer Jeremy Thomas, has 
apparently agreed a compro¬ 
mise which was put forward 
by Joan Bakeweli. deputy 
chairwoman. 

He will take stewardship of 
the project — it’s too late to 
stop. But he will look for a 
commercial partner used to 
running cinemas, say Rich¬ 
ard Branson’s Virgin, to take 
it over and share the risk. 
Insiders say that unless this is 
fixed, it could be the final folly 
that destroys the BF1. 
















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Stressed for success 


Downsizing and 
backstabbing make 
media and 
marketing the most 
highly stressed 
professions. Virginia 
Matthews reports 

M igraines, ulcers, heart 
disease and irritable 
bow'd syndrome are 
among the chronic disor¬ 
ders that lie in wait for the stressed-out 
brand manager nr advertising execu¬ 
tive. the annual Marketing Socteiy 
Conference heard last week. 

In a culture where everyday distrust 
backstabbing and often 14-hour days 
are given the added piquancy of 
impossible deadlines, slashed budgets 
and omnipotent clients, it is_ little 
wonder that as many as a third of 
people working in media, marketing, 
and advertising are, according to a 
i500 sample survey by the industrial 
psychologist Dr David Lewis, consid¬ 
ering quirting their jobs. 

Dr Lewis told an audience of 
marketing luminaries that the market¬ 
ing and media professions were full of 
"intelligent creative and ambitious" 
people whose high stress levels were 
directly related to the often minimal 
levels of control they had over then- 
working lives. 

Uncertainty about their jobs and 
intense competition with workmates, 
coupled with hostile management 
practices and bewildering layers of 
new technology had.'he said, “signifi¬ 
cantly challenged" the view that mar¬ 
keting and media were full of grossly 
overpaid layabouts. 

Many marketing professionals, he 
told the conference, the Marketing 
Society"s 31st, worked every evening 
and throughout the weekend to fulfil 
their job's basic requirements. 

Mr Lewis’s survey, which quizzed 
employees in the public sector, as well 
as advertising, media and marketing 
personnel, found that time pressures — 
an important contributor-to stress — 
are intensifying throughout the private 
and public sectors. As many as 83 per 
cent of marketing professionals be¬ 
lieved that managers allowed them 
insufficient time to complete work to a 
high standard. The trend towards 
downsizing had discouraged staff from 
making their complaints known. 



Underpressure many ills among high-flyersare Mamed on stress and fear in an ever-competitive workplace 


The other industries where time 
pressures had become chronic were 
teaching, the health service and air- 
traffic control. 

Mr Lewis said that the marketing 
industry 's record for sacking directors 
when things got tough was second only 
to the revolving-door syndrome suf¬ 
fered by football managers: a ruthless¬ 
ness friar contributed to high levels of 
“fear" throughout all echelons of the 
industry. 

While few media people could com¬ 
pare the aggravation or getting out on 
time a TV programme, or a radio 
commercial, with the problems of 
teaching in an inner-city school — 
where his survey finds even higher 
levels of stress — Dr Lewis believed 
that the innate creativity of media types 
had its own problems. 

“Although it is true that marketing 
and media attract a certain sort of 
person — chiefly one who needs a 


regular adrenalin buzz — many of die 
people we talked to felt they were 
creatively compromised by what they 
did and wanted to prove themselves in 
a different field. 

“Unfortunately, very few of the 
people who believe they should be 
producing a Booker Prizewinner, rafri- 
er-than writing clever slogans for dog- 
food or beans, actually have the talent 
to do so. This too can lead to great 
frustration." 

Delegates to the conference were told 
that to minimise stress, they should 
value and maintain relationships with 
people they felt they could trust While 
marketing and media are not re¬ 
nowned for their high levels of marital 
fidelity, it was important, said Dr. 
Lewis, that people under pressure at 
work should have someone to confide, 
in at night 

"Stress and depression can have a 
chronic effect on the libido," he said. 


“and this can lead to all sorts of 
problems at home." 

In the survey, almost two thirds of 
employers said they believed stress to 
be a significant factor in ill-health; 
while among employees. 98 per cent of 
the sample said the same. 

Only a third of employees believed 
that their companies were aware of 
soaring stress levels and were taking 
practical steps to help. Another third 
said that employers were aware of 
stress problems but did nothing to 
alleviate them, while the remainder 
said that their employers were oblivi¬ 
ous to the problem. 

One of Dr Lewis's practical solutions 
to stress was what he called the "hand¬ 
warming exercise," where an individ¬ 
ual imagines his or her dominant hand 
getting warmer and wanner. The 
ensuing flow of blood throughout the 
body can lead to an immediate feeling 
of wellbeing, he told the conference. 


Public flogging for 


a 



§i£. Brian ■/} 
MacArthiir 


I t is the divorce story of the decade.' 
according to the Daily Mail — and 
editois who suffered the Jash from Earl 
Spencer after the death of his sister; Diana, 
Princess of Wales, are retishing his day-by- 
day discomfiture at each new revelation 
about his seemingly callous treatment of fris' 
wife and lovers. 

On the day of the Princess’s deafh, 
Spencer savaged the British tab1okts,decIar- 
ing that editors and p ro prietors who bad 
paid paparazzi had "blood on their hands”. 
He twisted the knife at the funeral when be 
said that the Princess's “genuine goodness” 

' threatened those at the “opposjteend of the 
moral spectrum", a transparent-attack, on 
tabloid editors. 

Aware that their readers shared Spencer's 
views, even perhaps aware that the accusa¬ 
tion had some truth, editors did not rise to 
Spencer’s attacks, even though many probar 
bly knew the details of his private life that 
are now being revealed. So The Lord of 
Hello! magazine daimed the moral high 
ground. Sadly 
for Spencer, 
now portrayed 
in The Sun as 
“Lord. 

. Lovecbeat” 
and “Lord of 
the FlingS", 

the claim no _ 

longer holds . . 

and Spencer has removed himseif from the 
upper end of the moral spectrum Without 
any contribution from the tabloids. 

The Spencer divorce saga has all die 
Ingredients that make a story riveting — a 
millionaire lord of the realm, a spurned 
wife, a string of lovers (also apparently 
spumed) and a quarrel oyer how much a 
divorced wife is worth: a wife who was 
summoned to the bathroom and told she 
was being divorced while milord soaped 
himself in the bath. Simultaneously 
ashamed by our prurience but with an 
insatiable appetite for gossip, we long to 
know what happens next when aristocratic 
toffs fell out 

As the headlines suggest, it is not only 
tabloid editors who have had a field day. 
“Earl Spencer Cheated With 12 Women in 5 
Months" (The Sun). “Earl admitted he was a 
cruel, vicious bully" f The Daily Telegraph). 
“Bully Spencer kept me from Diana's 
funeral" (Daily Mail )t "Spencer I cant 
afford divorce daim. I only earn El milli on a 
year" (a gift for The Guardian). 

The accusations and counter-accusations 
in Cape Town were also a gift to editors 
campaigning against a law of privacy. As 
the Daily Mail was quick to point out, what 
right has a man who behaves in this fashion 




to set himself up as a cafflgiif* for a tew 
of DTLvacv 7 Spencer's attitude was 
fashioned lordly arrogance masquerading 
as high principle" saWHemy . . 

Tb^Sitood has also 
Lady Spencer. Angela Levin, a biographer 
of Spencer's father, suggested m the Daily 
Matt that Spencer was a product of nature 
and i aui t i i re . Both his father and grandfa¬ 
ther had treated their wives in s imitar 
fashion. In The Times. Maureen Freely 
celebrated the rise of “matron" poww. 

MThe Mirror. the Editor, Piers Morgan, 
was resisting any temptation, to gloat even 
though in 1995 when he edited the News of 
the Worldbe was the subject of a successful 
com plaint by Ear! Spencer to the Pits 
Com plaints Co mmiss ion about in vasion of 
privacy. Morgan had published^ pictures of 
Lady Spencer at a private dime and was 
publidy rebuked by Rupert Murdoch. 

Spencer has been naive at best, foolish at 
worst te believes. If he had settled out of 
court his serial adultery would have 
remained un¬ 
discovered. It 
was be who 
had made 
himself the na¬ 
tion's moral 
guardian. 
Now he had 
got his come¬ 
uppance. 

Yet as The Tunes reported yesterday, 
Spencer and his wife have lodged a joint 
complaint to the European Court of Human 
Rights a erasing the Government of tailing 
to protect their privacy by failing to prevent 
publication of the 1995 pictures. They are 
using Ariide 8 of the European Convention 
on Human Rights -r now being incorporat¬ 
ed into British law — which protects rights 
to privacy for private and family lives, 
homes and correspondence. 

Editors rightly fear that a privacy law is 
thus being introduced to Britain by the back 
door, although Lord Irvine of Lairg, the 
Lord Chancellor, indicated this week dial 
the PCC could become the privacy tribunal 
if it set up a fund for victims of press 
intrusion and thereby sidelined the threat of 
judges assuming the task. 

No such tribunal, however, would have 
saved Spencer his embarrassment this 
week. The cruel paradox fin- Spencer is that 
he apparently hoped a South African court 
would be less prodigal than a British court 
in deriding on Lady Spencer's divorce 
settlement Yet had he initiated the case in 
Britain, most of the salacious detail in the 
affidavits would not have emerged for 
public consumption. That bit of privacy was 
already protected by British law. 




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to enter the 


television age 

A BBC institution faces a new 
challenge, says Raymond Snoddy 


Hodne’s photograph of a mother collapsing as she discovers her eight children have been murdered brought Algeria's horror home to the world 

Icon of a hidden war 


T his is a picture of a mother 
on her knees supported by 
another mother. It is. in 
short, a Piefa: an image 
carrying a wealth of our own 
cultural baggage. The Madonna in 
Hell. One more massacre in Alge¬ 
ria. this time in Bentalha, a village 
a few kilometres from Algiers. The 
icon is timeless, not a news picture: 
but then news has little meaning in 
Algeria today. 

Stripped of' everything else, this 
photograph is about grief: grief so 
intense that we can see in our 
ipindS eye (he rows of corpses lined 
up in the early hours of the 
morning. Its use on the front pages 
of most French, Spanish, Italian 
and Lebanese dailies, plus the 
International Herald Tribune, 
The Washington /tost and-the Los 
Angelesllmes helped Ip areate-ai^,. 
Tconofthewan-' 


Michel Guerrin tells the story behind the photograph 
that awoke the world to Algeria’s horrific conflict 


It, carries a weight of emotion —. 
and some information: . “The 
woman below hasiust lost all right, 
of her children; the woman sup¬ 
porting her has- , just lost her ., 
parents.” All murdered " in 
Bentalha. The. photographer, 
Hodne, is Agence Ranee Presse's 
(AFP) only accredited photogra- , 
pher in Algeria. Why, he muses.. 
was it this particular shot that 
caught the unagination of the 
i? Events the day after the 


massacre at Bentalha on Septem¬ 
ber 22 illustrate the difficulties of 
being a photographer in a country 
where, according to a local press. 
photographer, “a camera is consid¬ 
ered more dangerous than a 
Kalashnikov." 

Alerted to the massacre, a few 
photographers reached the site 
around 9am. “I was stopped by 
police in plain clothes four or five 
times. I couldn’t get my camera 
out," says Hodne. 

"The bodies of the victims had 
been laid cart in a school. There was 
no way of getting in without 
running the gauntlet of the people 
-who were, outside." 

To find out exactly now many' 
had been massacred, a reporter 
from the newspaper Al Watan 
managed to get into the cemetery. 
“The official figure was 85 dead; we 
made it 252," he says. 

Getting the news out has became 
even more difficult since the massa¬ 
cre at Rais on August 29. While 
there is no formal ban, getting a 
picture is purely a matter of luck: 
what time the photographer arrives 
there, the mood of the police, what 
sort of deal negotiated. “Irs a game 


of hide and seek," says one photog¬ 
rapher, who uses a tiny spy camera 
to worm his way in. Even for him, 
he says, things have got “much 
tougher". Which is why Hodne 
goes for pictures that probe beyond 
the surface; "more about emotions 
than news". 

Hodne’s famous photograph 
was not. therefore, taken in file 
village but at Zmirii hospital on the 
outskirts of Algiers, where mothers 
had gathered in the hope of 
■ discovering survivors. They were 
nor allowed inside the hospital, but 
searched through the listsof names 
pinned up at ihe entrance. 

. After, discovering that there was .. 
~no “hope-far any “of-her "eight- 
children,. flje woman in his photo¬ 
graph crumpled to the ground, 
almost fainting. Hodne leant over 
and snapped while the police were 
otherwise occupied. He removed 
the film and jumbled it with others 
in his bag. Moments later, the new 
film was stripped out of his camera 
by the police, but the one that 
mattered survived. At 322pm the 
same day, the film was being 
distributed worldwide via AFP. 

Hodne is one of around 20 press 


photographers who work for the 
Algerian dailies. Faced with the 
additional problem of visas and 
insurance, there are few foreign 
photographers on the scene. 

The job of gathering the evidence 
of a country at war is left to a 
younger generation of Algerian 
photographers, "most of them well 
under 25 years old", according to 
one reporter. They have neither 
experience nor training, yet they 
have “a burning desire to break 
new ground". 

A number of editors and photog¬ 
raphers have noticed a change fit 
the role of pictures in the Algerian 
drily press. "Photography is more 
and more important; words no 
longer want to speak," says a 
journalist on Al Watan. “When 
words have lost fire power to 
convey the horror of this endless 
succession of unspeakable atroc¬ 
ities, photos take over and fill out 
the front page." 

In fact, the photographs coming 
out of Algeria are extremely limit¬ 
ed. Three Algerian photographers 
have therefore just set up a picture 
agency, News Press, and are dis¬ 
tributing worldwide through Sipa 


in Paris. Its manager, Ouaheb. is 
an old hand in the business: 
"Algeria itself is in danger why not 
write my name? Ill go on doing this 
until 1 die. We drink our bottle of 
whisky daily as we waft. We laugh. 
We live." He believes it is still 
possible to work without too many 
limitations, and plans to set up a 
correspondent in every sizeable 
town in Algeria within the next few 
months — about 40 in all. 

He has no doubts about the role 
of photography in Algeria. “You 
have to shock people u you want 
them to act My photos are tough." 
— like the one of the small girl with 
her throat slit being pulled out of a 
well that she had bean thrown into. 
“People who don’t believe that the 
massacres are happening change 
their minds when they see them." 
he says. 

Everyone knows that there are 
photographs from Algeria — ba¬ 
bies with their throats slit and 
burnt in ovens, the heads of two 
small beys in a sack —too terrible 
to be shown. The French magazine 
Marianne published the latter on 
September 8 with the following 
caption: "Photos from Algeria. Do 
you want to see them? All of them? 
Or would you rather have Diana?" 

• This amde. translated from Le 
Monde, appears In Index on Censor¬ 
ship. Subsaiprions: 0171-278 2313 


■ FIRST Guinness, now Nike. 
The American sportswear giant 
has become the second high- 
profile advertiser in two weeks to 
dump its existing agency, despite 
paying fulsome tribute to die 
quality of its advertising and 
enjoying demonstrable success in. 
the marketplace. 

When Nike paMidy praised 
TBWA Simons Palmer’s recent 
Parklife commercial as "perhaps 
the finest football ad ever made" 
one might have known the writ¬ 
ing was era the wall. Such public 
endorsements have become 
advertising's equivalent _df the. 
football chairman: expressing ev¬ 
ery confidence in his manager. 

You will have seen this advert, 
noticed years of hard-hitting Nike 
posters starring the likes of Eric 
Cantona, Ian Wright and Les 
Ferdinand, and know the “Just 
Do If slogan, even though the 
company often just uses its logo 
to sign off its adverts. But you wfll 
also have seen last yeart epic 
good-versus-evil commercial, in 
which a team captained by Eric 
Cantona saw off a team of devils; 

This was made by Wieden & 
Kennedy, the agency that has for 
years been thought of as Ameri¬ 
ca's sexiest, largely oh account of 
its work for Nike. Since co- 
founder Dan Wieden coaxed Ni¬ 
ke* Phil Knight out of his 
loathing for advertising and ad¬ 
men in 1982. dient and agency 
have grown together. Wieden 
'runs Nike’sadverts worldwide. 

In 1992.' Wieden opened in 
Amsterdam, putting still further 


Nike joins trend for 
giving agencies the boot 


pressure on the 
UK agency that 
■was file only 
glitch in This glob¬ 
al hold .on 
advertising’s 
joint-sexiest ac¬ 
count (along with 
Levi*). However, 

Nike chose to 
stay loyal to the agency then 
known as Simons Palmer Denton 
Clemmow and Johnson, ignoring 
its silly name because of Ks 
successful work. 

However, when Simons Palmer 
etc merged with TBWA earlier 
this year, it gave Nike an excuse to 
look around. It is the kind of 
advertiser that had. begun to 
beBeve its own press about bow 
cool it is, and some at Nike felt 
they were just another client at the 
new .TBWA Simons Palmer, 
where others indude Nissan, The 
Sun, Goldfish and Sony. 

So Nike staged a review. We 
will never discover how the UK 
agencies, WCRS and St Luke’s 
feel about having taken part It is 
not done in the agency business 
: to criticise clients,-no matter how 
badly they have behaved. You 
never know when they will ■ be 
looking around again. 







The result Is the only positive 
development in this sony tale. 
Wieden 8t Kennedy will cany out 
its decade-long threat to open in 
London. 

While cynically acknowledging 
that it was unlikely to do so 
without guaranteed Nike busi¬ 
ness. itwiH be the most interesting 
and refreshing start-up to hit 
London in years. 

Wieden’s other major Ameri¬ 
can clients are Microsoft and 
Coca-Cola. Together with Nike 
they form a list any start-up would 
kill for. although it doesn’t have 
them here—yet While the agency 
is bound to be restricted by Nike 
as to what other clients it might 
handle initially, it is unlikely to be 
long before it becomes a major 
force, pitching for some of the best 
accounts around. 

The chief forseeable snag — 
ironically — is the very thing that 


east TBWA Si¬ 
mons Palmer its 
most prized ac¬ 
count politics. In 
this case; it is the 
resistance of the 
local UK market¬ 
ing department to 
being told by 
Coca-Cola in At¬ 
lanta, and M icrosoft in Seattle; for 
example, what to do. However, in 
today’s global marketing busi¬ 
ness, the local staff might huff and 
puff a while, but in the end they 
will be forced to toe the company 
line. 

■ TALKING of politics, the wan¬ 
ing influence of the national 
marketing department in the face 
of pressure from the centralised 
regional function became only too 
evident this week when General 
Motors Europe awarded the £30 
million pan-European advertis¬ 
ing launch of its new 
Vauxhall/Opel Astra to the small 
London agency, Rainey Kelly 
Campbell Roalfe, the UK's last 
wholly successful start-up. 

It is difficult to comprehend the 
ripples this sent around the indus¬ 
try. General Motors is one of 
those clients that has long been 


deemed rock solid within a giant 
multinational agency grouping — 
in this case the Lowe Group and 
McCann-Erickson. both subsid¬ 
iaries of the giant Inter- 
publicGroup (IPG). 

Multinational agencies are tra¬ 
ditionally built on such clients. 
They open offices around the 
world on the promise of business 
like GM’s. There remains an 
overall trend towards global, or at 
least, regional, centralisation of 
business into one agency or 
group. 

But ever since Coca-Cola hu¬ 
miliated the IPG subsidiary 
McCann-Erickson in the early 
Nineties by putting business into 
the Creative Artists Agency, then 
run by Michael Ovitz, there has 
been a significant stream of 
clients such as Sony, Microsoft, 
Levi's, and now GM. that have 
bucked this trend. 

It all goes to add to the feeling 
that after 25 years of rdafrve 
inertia, when things were done as 
they always had been done, there 
is a growing air of anything goes. 
Giant clients such as Unilever are 
going outside their agency and 
appointing tiny start-ups with 
new silly names such as Mother, 
to the panic and consternation of 
the big toys. While Rainey Kelly 
will scarcely be able to believe its 
success. Phfl Gtrier, chief execu¬ 
tive of IPG, will be on the 
warpath. At last the advertising 
business has woken up, 

• 5/efano Hatfield is Editor 
of Campaign. 





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The Nike ad was ofled “perhaps the finest football ad ever made 


Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe will take over the VauxhaU Astra ads 


T he BBC World Service, 
which broadcasts in 45 lan¬ 
guages to a regular audience 
of more rhan 143 million people, is 
seeking government approval to 
move into television. 

There is no actual prohibition 
against television in the constitu¬ 
tional documents of the World 
Service, but in the past government 
permission has not been given to 
use Foreign Office money for such 
a purpose. Last year a possible 
television joint venture in Russia 
was rejected. "I imagine they 
refused because of 
fears that it would 
involve 

megamil lions." says 
Sam Younger, man¬ 
aging director of the 
World Service. He be¬ 
lieves that a modest 
involvement in tele¬ 
vision in areas of the 
world that are unlike¬ 
ly to be commercially 
attractive to BBC 
Worldwide need not 
cost much but could 
be significant for the 
future of the organisation."When 
the aim is to get our content 
through (to audiences], if television 
is a better method of doing that, 
then that is the way we should go," 
says Mr Younger. 

His plans range from putting 
money into dubbing and subtitling 
Television pictures and world news 
bulletins produced with a local 
partner, to ultimately launching 
local television newsgathering. 

The World Service is not think¬ 
ing about providing English-lan¬ 
guage television, but a vernacular 
service for places such as Russia, 
Indonesia and Africa where it 
might make a difference. 

The desire for the freedom to 
move gradually into 
television is part of a 
much wider debate 
about the future role 
of the World Service 
and what channels 
should be used to 
reach its audiences 
in an increasingly 
multi-media en¬ 
vironment. 

The new Govern¬ 
ment appears more 
sympathetic to the 
World Service than 
recent Conservative 
governments, which 
have tended to chisel 
at its budget. But Mr 
Younger is very 
aware that persuad¬ 
ing them to come up 
with more money 
will still be difficult. 

A proposed £5 mil¬ 
lion cut was restored 
in last November’s 
budget but it is dear 
there will be no addi¬ 
tional money for the 
next two years. In the 
last financial year 
the Government 
grant to run the 
World Service total¬ 
led El 74.6 million. 

“What we are do¬ 
ing is getting into a 
longer-term discus¬ 
sion about the next 
five years from the 
1999/2000 (financial 
year). Whal we want 
them to do is to share 
our view of what we 
can do and be, and 
then hope that they 
will be sympathetic to putting in an 
extra bit of money which, in 
Treasury terms, is peanuts — 1 to 2 
per cent in real terms." says Mr 
Younger. 

Apart from a modest move into 
Television, the World Service be¬ 
lieves it has to look increasingly at a 
variety of ways to reach its audi¬ 
ence. While short-wave broadcasts 
will remain the backbone of the 
service, in many parts of the world 
short-wave sound quality is in¬ 
creasingly unacceptable to audi¬ 
ences used to FM. 

The World Service has respond¬ 
ed by offering programmes for re¬ 
broadcast in FM and gaining 
access to local FM frequencies in 
individual countries. 

It has been granted an FM 
frequency for its service in Jordan 
—which would probably have been 
unthinkable only a few years ago. 
The service has had its own 
frequencies in such dties as Berlin 
and Singapore for years but now 
has FM frequencies such diverse 
places as Dakar and Kampala, 
Dohar and Qatar, and is about to 
add Nairobi and Mombasa to the 
list 

In areas of the world where 
editorial compatibility is possible, 
the World Service is going a step 
further and entering co-production 
deals. The latest one, to be signed 
early next month, is with the South 
African Broadcasting Corporation. 
“There are not too many areas of 



Sam Younger 


the world where you can actually 
do it You have to tread carefully." 
says Mr Younger. "But in the long 
term it is a way of maintaining 
relevance and (audience} reach in 
markets where we are no longer 
competing as a local provider." 

The text of World Service bulle¬ 
tins is now being provided for the 
BBC’s online news service, wfth 
Cantonese bulletins already avail¬ 
able and a number of other 
languages likely in the next six 
months. The World Service also 
hopes to add voice, although 
because of the cost 
that may need a part¬ 
ner. Work is also pro¬ 
gressing on plans to 
improve short-wave 
quality by turning it 
into a digital signal. 

A new international 
group. Digital Radio 
Mondial, is being set 
up to create a single 
standard for short¬ 
wave digital. Wide¬ 
spread implementat¬ 
ion of the service is 
probably a few years 
away because of the need to 
upgrade transmitters and produce 
radio receivers at mass-marker 
prices. 

The World Service and other 
international broadcasters are also 
negotiating with WorldSpace, an 
American-based company that 
plans to launch three digital radio 
satellites — the first next year. 
Although the satellites are already 
under construction, there is con¬ 
cern at the likely cost of the 
receivers and the fact that they need 
a “line of sight" with the satellites to 
be effective. 

While technology develops, and 
with it the possibility of more new 
radio channels, the World Service 



The World Sendee: wide-ranging plans 


hopes within the next year to 
produce a second radio channel in 
embryo. A mixed schedule of 
programming will still be provided 
by short wave but the plan is to 
make around nine hours a day of 
news and current affairs segments 
available via satellite for early 
morning and late evening and 
“drive,times" in the main regions. 

To begin with, the new stream of 
FM programming will be for re¬ 
broadcasting but Mr Younger be¬ 
lieves it can gradually be developed 
into a second channel. 


H 


e is convinced that after 
half a century of World 
Service dominance, it is 
"not realistic” To think that the BBC 
can continue being tlie leader only 
with short wave. “We have all the 
skills and experience to do it across 
a number of media and be the 
leader in the 21st century — and all 
for a modest extra cost," he says. 

He accepts, however, that in¬ 
creased competition may make it 
hard to hold on to the present 143 
million regular listeners which can 
be measured — the actual number 
is almost certainly higher. 

Mr Younger has taken heart 
from a recent study in Turkey. It 
revealed that around 1 per cent of 
the Turkish population listened to 
World Service broadcasts. But in 
Ankara and Istambul, the total 
included 25 per cent of the country’s 
chief executives and MPs. 


















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In politics, 
all that 
counts is 
good news 

Attacking your rivals may be a waste 
of time. Martin Rosenbaum reports 


V iewers are strongly 
swayed by positive 
reporting of a polit¬ 
ical party's activities, 
but are largely unaffected by 
negative coverage, according 
to a recent academic study. 
The Endings challenge the 
common wisdom among polit¬ 
ical strategists, who believe 
that although voters tell poll¬ 
sters they do not like negative 
campaigning, they are still 
powerfully influenced by it. 

Videotapes of selected elec¬ 
tion news items were shown to 
240 participants, who an¬ 
swered questions on their 
political views before and after 
watching the rapes. Those who 
watched positive coverage of 
Labour emerged with a signif¬ 
icantly more' favourable im¬ 
pression of the party. The 
Tories benefited similarly 
from positive news. But those 
who saw the negative reports 
of either party were not signifi¬ 
cantly affected. 

The extracts were intended 
to illustrate the variety of 
election reporting. Items 
ranged from serious setpiece 
speeches and the latest eco¬ 
nomic statistics, to John Pres¬ 
cott chatting cheerfully on his 
battle-bus and Norma Major 
visiting a factory. 

“The lesson for political 
parries is to concentrate on 
getting positive coverage and 
not on knocking your oppo¬ 
nents." says David Sanders of 
Essex University, who co¬ 
ordinated the experiments. 

Professor Sanders argues 
that positive messages stand 


out more from the general 
background of negative poli¬ 
ticking. Voters become so ac¬ 
customed to negative stories 
about politics that they are less 
susceptible to them. "Negative 
campaigning perhaps con¬ 
tains within itself the seeds of 
its own long-term failure." he 
says.' "The more voters are 
exposed to it. the less they are 
affected by it" 

Analysis of election cover¬ 
age confirms that it was 
largely negative, with more 
time devoted to politicians 
squabbling with their oppo¬ 
nents than presenting their 
potides. Throughout April, the 
lead election story in the BBC’s 
main evening news bulletin 
had a positive headline on 
only eight nights. For ITN. the 
positive rating was just five. 

The research team admits 
that its study measured only 
the immediate impact on polit¬ 
ical perceptions of one 30- 
minute collection of television 
news stories. The team hopes 
to look at possible longer-term 
effects of repeated coverage in 
further experiments next year. 

The results mark a striking 
contrast with similar experi¬ 
ments conducted in the United 
Suites at die University of 
California. These were based 
on candidates' own television 
ads rather than news reports, 
but they suggested that it was 
generally negative ads which 
hit home. In particular, "float¬ 
ing voters" — the target of 
every political campaign — 
were influenced only by nega¬ 
tive messages. 



Swinging voters: Peter Snow analyses the election results on his Swingometer 


Professor Sanders says that 
campaign managers of all 
parties who have been bor¬ 
rowing hard-hitting American 
electioneering techniques 
should take heed. “The British 
electorate is not Americanised 
— it responds differently," he 
says. “Campaigning models 
which people want to import 
wholesale from the US may 
not be appropriate here." 

However, political strate¬ 
gists are not easily impressed 
and are unlikely to abandon 
their deeply ingrained habits. 
Chris Pbwell, the chief execu¬ 
tive of Labours ad agency 
BMP DDB. says: “It is veiy 


dear from our research dur¬ 
ing the election that while 
content-free abuse of the other 
lot rebounds on you, attacks 
that crystallise beliefs in a 
factual manner are acceptable 
and effective. That’s why the 
‘tax bombshell’ worked for the 
Tories in 1992. and why *22 
Tory tax rises’ and ‘Majors 
broken promises’ worked far 
us this time." 

Charles Lewington, Conser¬ 
vative director of communica¬ 
tions during the election, is 
more blunt “There are times 
when you have to step back 
from what the academics are 
saying and use your common 


sense." he says. “There is no 
doubt that people are influ¬ 
enced by bad news coverage 
about a party on television. If 
you see Neil Hamilton’s face 
pop up on television for the 
third night running, saying 
that he wont stand down, you 
are bound to think that his 
party is a shambles.” 

Professor Sanders is re¬ 
signed to political parties not 
praying heed to his work. “It 
always amazes me how aca¬ 
demic research doesn’t get 
through to top politicians," he 
says. “The trouble with being 
an academic is that no one 
takes you seriously." 


The future is a 
computer: in English 


f 1 

tori 


E verybody knows that predictions 
about the future, particularly those 
involving the pace of technological 
change, are usually wrong — often ludi¬ 
crously so. 

In 1939 The New York Times was certain 
ttiaf television would never pose a threat to 
radio because you would have to sit and 
watch the screen and “the average American 
family hasn't time for iT. 

Ten years later Thomas Watson, founder 
of IBM, thought there was a market for 
about five computers in the entire world. In 
the early Eighties. McKinsey, the consul¬ 
tants, thought that by 2000 there would 
probably be around 900,000 mobile tele¬ 
phones out there. By 1996 the forecast had 
already been proved wrong by a factor of 
more than 100. 

But the future is fascinating because it 
seems to be fimtting towards us at ever- 
greater speeds. A new book out this week. 
The Death of Distance, by Frances 
Cairncross of The Economist warns us how 
fundamental 
the changes 
are likely to be 
in the next cen- 
tury because 
of the changes 
in oo trim un¬ 
ications — in 

particular foe _ 

coming to¬ 
gether of television, the telephone and the 
computer. 

When your timeframe is a century, it is 
possible to argue almost anything with a 
reasonable degree of plausibility, knowing 
that you are unlikely to be comprehensively 
contradicted. 

However Ms Cairncross suggests that a 
fair-sighted person in 1897 could have 
predicted that great social change would 
result from the arrival of the automobile. In 
a s imil ar way, the author believes that 
decades of technical progress in broadcast¬ 
ing, computers and tdeoommuiiications are 
coming together in a predictable way to 
drive forward dramatic social change. 

In such a scenario most people on earth 
will have access to “switched”, interactive, 
broadband networks which will deliver 
limitless quantities of images and informa¬ 
tion. Televirion will continue to change 
radically, with people likely to end up 
paying much more for such attractions as 
live events. 

In the index of The Death of Distance, the 
word newspaper does not appear, except 
with the word "electronic" in front of it But 
Ms Cairncross is not a totally mad 
futurologist She concedes that electronic 
versions of newspapers may have to offer 


aw* services before subscriber 

wifibrprepared to pay for them. 

Travellers abroad may *2^ 

ashcaUbedetiveird to the door, says Ms 
C aii across . ._ ._- . 

Bet it is some of her bl 8 so °“ 

to order exactly what they want to view or 
read — and presumably pay for than 
mdjvktwdfy, toa At foe same time ransom¬ 
ers will face a deluge of infonuanoa acd 
companies wfll need to develop wen better 
techniques to brand and push their products 
ahead of their competitors. 

The' information and entertainment pro¬ 
ducers of the Anglo-Saxon world should 
also receive an additional boost with the 
costuming spread of English as a second 
lajMnage aitKtnd foe world. 

“It wfll be as important to learn English as 
- - to use software 

that is compat¬ 
ible with the 
near universal 
MS-DOS." 
Ms Cairncross 
predicts. 

The creation 
of global mar¬ 
kets for infor- 
TTTfion and entertainment will create a new 
dass of the global supewich — many of 
them musicians, artists and entertainers. 

Cities will become places for entertain¬ 
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and the office wfll become a place for the 
social aspects of work such as celebrating, 
networking, lunching and gossiping. 

Ms Cairncross also believes that as 
countries become more economically depen¬ 
dent. and people communicate more across 
cultures, understanding will be increased, 
tolerance will be fostered and world peace 
will ultimately be promoted. 

It is probably the grandest c l ai m that has 
ever been made for the communications 
industry. 

Faced with such an onslaught of change, 
it is reassuring that for now at least. Ms 
Otixncross’s ideas are transmitted by oldr 
fashioned paper and inkbetween cardboard 
covers. 

Of coarse, as any futurologist knows, 
predicting what life is like in the middle of 
the next century is less demanding than 
* g to work out what will happen the year 
next 


•Hie Death of Distance: How The Commun¬ 
ications Revolution Will Change Our lives, by 
Frances Cairncross [Orion Business Books. £ IS.9Q). 



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THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28 1997 

Court of Appeal 


LAW 45 


Law Report November 281997 


House of Lords 



Regina . v Secretary of Stale 
for the Home Depa rtment , 
Ex parte Stafford 
Before land Bingham of ComhilL 
Lord Chief Justice. Lord Justice 
Morrin and Lord Justice Buxton 
[Judgment November 26] 

The extraordinarily wide dis¬ 
cretion con fe rred on the Secretary 
of State for the Home Department 
by section. 29 of the Crime (Sen¬ 
tences) Act 1997. which replaced 
section 35 of the Criminal Jostice 
Act 1991. entitled him to refuse to 
release a mandatory life sentence 
prisoner after expiry of the pu¬ 
nitive term on the ground that, 
although not thought to present a 
risk, if released, of oo mmitrit ig a 
violent or sesoial offence, he might 
commit some other rmpriscnaWe 
offence or foil to comply with the 
requirements of his life licence. 

The Court of Appeal so stated 
when allowing the Home Sec¬ 
retary's appeal from Mr Justice 
Collins who had granted an 
application for judicial review by 
Dennis. Stafford, of the '.Home 
Secretary's refusal to direct his 
release following recommendation 
by the Parole Board that he should 
do so. • 

In 1967 the applicant, with.a co- 
defendant. had been convicted of 
murder and sentenced to - life 
imprisonment. Following his re¬ 
lease in I979.cn life licence, and in 
breadt of its terms, he went to 
South Africa where he remained 
apparently witbour conviction or 
complaint of criminal conduct. . 

His licence was revoked and in 
1989, . on his return on a false 
passport, for use of which he was 
fined, he was detained in prison. In 
1991, following a. recommendation 
by the Parole Boarii be was again 
released on licence, but in 1994 
after conviction erf' conspiracy to 
forge haveners' cheques and Brit¬ 
ish passports for which he was 
sentenced to six years his licence 
was revoked. 

In 1996-the Parole Board recom¬ 
mended his release, concluding 
that he presented a veiy low risk of 
serious re-offending." The Home 
Secretary refused to direct release 
on the grounds that he had failed 
to comply with requirements of 
earlier licences and* although not 
presenting a significant risk of 
committing further offences of 
violence, he might commit further 
serious offences. 

He accortfirtgly directed that the 
applicant be moved to an open 
prison with a formal review to 


begin two years after his arrival 
(here. 

Mr David Pannick. QC and 
Miss Eleanor Grey for the Home 
Secretary; Mr Tim Omen for the 
applicant. 

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, 
tracing chronologically the dev¬ 
elopment of the current law on the 
present question, referred to: the 
statement made in November 1983 
I Hansard [HC Wa. ads 505-8)1 by 
Mr Leo n Brinan describing the 
procedures he proposed to in¬ 
troduce for handling the release of 
mandatory life sentence prisoners; 
in re Findlay fll9S5] AC 31% R v 
Secretary of State for the Home 
Department. Ex parte Hands- 
comb {(1988) 86 Cr App R 54). R v 
Secretary of State for the Home 
Department. Ex parte Benson 
(The Times November 2i. 1988): R v 
Parole Board. Ex pane Bradley 
fll991| 1 WLR 134 and Thynne. 
Wilson and Gunnell v United 
Kingdom U1990) 13 EHRR 6661. 

His Lordship said that section 34 
of the Criminal Justice Act. I99| 
deprived the secretary of state of 
an}’ effective role in relation to 
discretionary life sentence pris¬ 
oners. The punitive term was fixed. 
fay the sentencing judge, the assess¬ 
ment of risk was made by the 
Parole Board whose sole concern 
in that assessment, the section 
made plain, was with the protec¬ 
tion of the public. 

Thai was to he understood in the 
context of the violent or sexual, 
offence for which the prisoner had 
in the first place been sentenced. 
..That was. hoivver. in sharp 
contrast to section 35 which made 
plain that in the case of mandatory 
life sentence prisoners the sec¬ 
retary of state retained a broad 
discretion to refer, or not refer 
cases to the board and to release, 
or not to refease, (he only explicit 
constraint being that lie might not 
release where the board, having 
been consulted, recommended no. 
release. 

It was during the parliamentary 
debates on the 1991 legislation that 
the Home Office Minister ad¬ 
vanced the view that a mandatory 
life sentence prisoner had commit¬ 
ted a crime of such gravity that he 
had forfeited his liberty to the state 
for the rest , of his days Site also 
referred to a presumption that the 
offender should remain in custody 
until and unless the Home Sec¬ 
retary concluded that the public 
interest would be better served by 
the prisoner’s release than by his 


continued detention, see Hansard 
(HC Debates) (Julv lb, W91; cots 
309*310). 

His Lordship referred in R v 
Secretary of State for the Home 
Department, Ex pane Cox ((19)115 
Admin LR 17): R r Secretary of 
State far the Home Department. 
Ex parte Creamer (unrepaired. 
October 21. 1992): to directions 
given by the Hone Secretary to the 
Parole Board, under section 32(6) 
or the 1991 Ad on March 30.1993. 
concerning the release of man¬ 
datory life sentence prisoners and 
the transfer of life sentence pris¬ 
oners to open conditions. 

. He "also referred »Rv Secretary 
of State for the Home Depart¬ 
ment. Ex pane Doody Q1Q94]! AC 
531); the Home Secretary's par¬ 
liamentary answer, prompted by 
that derision, of July 27. 1993 
(I Hansard (HC WA. cojs 863-$}: 
Wynne v United Kingdom ((1994) 
19" EHRR 333); R v Secretary of 
State for the Home Department. 
Ex parte Singh (unreponed. 
March 16.1995k Hussain v United 
Kingdom ((1996) 22 EHRR 1) and 
to section 28 of the Crime (Sen¬ 
tences) Act 1997. which replaced 
section 34 erf the 1991 Act and gave 
effect to that decision, assimilating 
the position of mandatory pris¬ 
oners detained during her Maj¬ 
esty^ pleasure with that of 
disoetionaiy life sentence pris¬ 
oners and detainees. 

That section provided that in the 
case of each the sole test for release 
following completion of the pu¬ 
nitive term was to be that confine¬ 
ment was no longer necessary for 
the protection of the public. 

Having referred to R v Secretary 
of State for the Home Depart¬ 
ment. Ex parte. Venables and 
Thompson (j 1997] 3 WLR 23) and R 
v Secretary of Suae for the Home 
Department. Ex parte Pierson 
Q1997] 3 WLR 492) his Lordship 
said that, as judges in the various 
cases had treated, and as the 
Home Secretary plainly accepted, 
in relation to discretionary life 
sentence prisoners, detainees and 
those detained during her Maj¬ 
esty’s pleasure, danger to the 
public was the only ground on 
which continued detention could 
be justified once the prisoner had 
served the punitive term fixed for 
his mm- 

However, section 29 of the 1997 
Act, which replaced section 35 of 
the 1991 Aa. preserved a different 
regime for mandatory life sentence 
prisoners, their release being sub¬ 


ject only to the secretary of state's 
discretion. . 

The only statutory constraint on 
that ex erase was that he might not. 
subject In sectiun 36 of the 1991 Act 
and section 30 of the 1997 A a. 
release such a prisoner unless 
recommended by die Parole Beard 
to do so and after consultation with 
the Lord Chid" Justice together 
with the trial judge if available. 

He was not obliged to direct 
release even if recommended to do 
so and in deriding whether to 
release he might properly have 
regard to considerations of a 
broader character than danger to 
the public. Factors relevant to 
release included polk)’ reasons, 
public acceptability and the need to 
maintain public confidence in the 
criminal justice system. 

He had publidy directed the 
Parole Board that in exercising his 
discretion to release such a pris¬ 
oner he took account of matters 
going beyond die risk posed by the 
prisoner and that he was con¬ 
cerned with ihe wider political 
implications of release, including 
the effect on public r dence in 
the life sentence system which 
release might have and the public 
response to the release of such a 
prisoner. 

He had also publicly directed the 
board that before recommending 
release h should consider whether 
the risk of the prisoner committing 
further imprisonable offences after 
release was minimal and whethor 
the prisoner was likely ro comply 
with the conditions of his life 
licence and (he requirements of 
supervision. 

He had told Parliament that 
such a prisoner should not assume 
that he wuuld be released on 
completion of his punitive term, 
even if he was no longer consid¬ 
ered to be a risk to the public, and 
that before releasing such a pris¬ 
oner he would consider the public 
acceptability of early release. 

There was no ambiguity in those 
statements, nor was it suggested 
that they had ever been modified 
or withdrawn. Despite an opportu¬ 
nity to do so in the 1997 Act 
Parliament had done nothing to 
circumscribe or control the ex¬ 
ercise of the secretary of stale’s 
discretion. 

He had announced what his 
policy was and the derision now 
challenged was not a departure 
from it His direction to the board 
in March 1999 and hb par* 


liameruarv answer <rf July 27.1993 
were oouchcd in broad terms. 

His Lordship did not accept Lhal 
die word "risk" there used was 
properly to be understood as 
limited id the risk of violent cr 
sexual offending- The Home Sec¬ 
retory had not said so. 

It was nw for the courts, to 
ri naimscribe (he effec of his 
general references to "a further 
imprisonable offence”, "re-offend¬ 
ing" and ” further ofTenas”. 

The system of release on life 
licence could reuhinably be 
thought to be bruuobr into dis- 
. credir if those so released commit¬ 
ted serious offences of dishonesty 
or flouted the conditions on which 
they had been released. 

l! was irrelevant whether mem¬ 
bers of the court, as individuals, 
agreed or disagreed with that view. 
As judges, their only concern was 
with the lawfulness" of ihe Home 
Secretary ’s conduct. 

The own had to bear in mind 
that Parliament had seen lit to 
confer an him an extraordinarily 
wide discretion which he had not 
narrowed in the way suggested. 

Although allowing the appeal 
and dismissing the application for 
judicial review. die lacs of the case 
caused his Lordship considerable 
concern. 

The term the applicant now 
faced had not been imposed by 
way of punishment, because he 
had alreadv served the punitive 
term which his serious previous 
offences had been thought to merit. 
The term had no: been imposed 
because he was thought to present 
a danger to the public. 

It was not submitted that it bore 
any relation to the gravity of any 
future imprisonable offence which 
he might commit or xhat rt was 
needed to ensure future compli¬ 
ance with the terms of his life 
licence. 

The imposition of what was m 
effect a substantial term of 
imprisonment by the exercise erf 
executive discretion, without trial, 
lay uneasily with ordinary con¬ 
cepts of (he rule of law. 

His Lordship hoped the Home 
Secretary might, even now. think it 
right to give further consideration 
to the case. 

Lord Justice Morrin delivered a 
concurring judgment and Lord 
Justice Buxton delivered a judge¬ 
ment concurring in the result. 

Solicitors: Treasury Solicitor 
Michael Purdon. Newcastle upon 
Tyne. 


Impact of pension on 
amount of damages 


Longdro v British Coal 
Corporation 

Before Lord Goff of Chicvetey. 
Lord Slynn of Hadley . Lead Steyn. 
Lord Hope rrf Craighead and Lord 
Clyde 

(Speeches November 27] 

Where an employee received an 
incapacity pension from a 
contributory scheme that provided 
for either an incapacity pension or 
a retirement pension, ihe periodi¬ 
cal payments received wrt not 
deductible from ihni pan of an 
award of damages for personal 
injuries representing loss of retire- 
men! pension, bui a lump sum also 
received should be apportioned 
and that pan deducted that was 
attributable to the period after 
normal retirement age. 

The House nf Lords allowed in 
part an appeal by the British Cnal 
Corporation from the Court of 
Appeal (Lord Justice McCowan. 
Lord Justice Koch and Lord Justice 
Ward) f The Times April J4. J995; 
J1995] ICR 957t. which had dis¬ 
missed his appeal from Mr Justice 
Douglas Broun. 

Mr Simon Hawkes worth. QC 
and Mrs Margaret Bickford - 
Smith for BCC: Mr fan McLaren, 
QC and Mr Richard Bum for the 
plaintiff. 

LORD HOPE said that the 
plaintiff had been employed as a 
deputy at BCCs Wen Thorpe 
Colliery. North Derbyshire. He 


had been injured m an aoadent 
there on April 17. 1985 and been 
unable to continue in his employ¬ 
ment. He had applied to the 
trustees of the staff superannua¬ 
tion scheme and on August 22. 
|9So been awarded an incapacity 
pension. 

He had been 77 when he had 
retired, the normal age being 60. 
Contributors to the scheme were 
entitled to either a retirement 
pension or an incapacity pension, 
but not both. 

The payments that he had 
received had consisted of an an¬ 
nual pension and a jump sum. In 
his claim for damages he had 
included a daim for luss nf 
retirement pension, consisting of 
the lump sum to which he would 
have been entitled on retirement at 
the normal retirement age together 
with the difference between the 
annual retirement pension that he 
would have received after that dale 
and the annual incapacity pension 
that he was receiving and would 
continue to receive. 

BCC maintained That the award 
for pension loss ought to take 
account of the lump sum that the 
plaintiff had received tngeiherwiih 
the total of all the annual payments 
that he had received and wuuld 
continue tu receive or be entitled to 
receive under his incapacity pen¬ 
sion until he reached the norma! 
retirement age. 

The judge had awarded a sum 


fur pension loss without deduction 
and the Conn uf Aprul. subject to 
correcting an error in calculation, 
had dismissed BCC":. appeal. 

The effect of Parry v Cleaver 
i[197fl] AC 1) and S maker v London 
Fire and Civil Defence Authnrit . 
(|194I| 2 AC SC> *:r. that incapac¬ 
ity and disability pension', fell 
outside the general rule ih.ii prima 
facie all receipts [tut man accident 
had lube set against toves dainttC 
to have arisen because uf the 
ucodeni. 

It was impossible tu rvcnnrife 
with the decision tn those cases 
BCC’s aryumenr that at the en*J of 
ihe whole exercise one had in slant! 
back and asses* the plaintiff s net 
loss and in doing so make tile 
deduction for which ihtty 
contended. 

In order to o impure like with 
like, however, the lump sum llut 
Ihe plaintiff had received should i>f 
apportioned and he should b: 
required to brine int<» account :li=: 
part that represented (he 
commulaikin uf a par; <rf tire 
annual payments that he would 
otherwise have received as income 
during the period io which ills 
claim for ti*\ nf retirement pen¬ 
sion related. BCCs appeal should 
Iv allowed tu that extent. 

Lord Guff. Lord Slynn. Lord 
Steyn and Lord Clyde agreed. 

Solicitors: Nabarro Nalhanson. 
Sheffield; Hupkin. & Sons. 
Mansfield. 


School need not supervise 
leaving for home 


Claiming privilege against self-incrimination 


Dowirie and Others v Coe 
and Others 

Before Lord Bingham of Comhill. 
Lord Chief Justice, Lord Justice 
Morrin and Lord Justice Buxton 
[Judgment November 5] 

The privilege against sdWn- 
arimmarion. whether as protection 
against answering a question in 
the witness box or an in to ro g ator y 
or against disclosing a document 
on discovery, had to be claimed on 
oath by the person who sought to 
rely on h. even If support and 
substantiation for the cblm might 
come from elsewhere. 

Where, therefore, privilege was 
claimed on affidavit by a sdUdror 
on his djem^t behalf the daim was 
not properly made. 

The Court of Appeal so stated 
when dismissing on different 
grounds an appeal by die first and 
second defendants, Alan Coe and 
David Bemham. from Mr J. 


Griffith-wnUams, QC, sitting as a 
deputy judge of the Queen's Bench 
Division, who had required diem 
to comply with an order for 
discovery ot inter alia, bank and 
building society statements in an 
action brought against them and 
the third defendant. Roy .BonewdL 
by the plaintiffs, Nicholas Dpwnfe. 
John. Martin, 7 Sandra. Goldstone- 
aifd Defek:Kahv6rd. m reipetrbf 
the defendants" alleged misappro¬ 
priation of funds. 

Mr Peter Merrily for Mr Coe; 
Mr John Causer for Mr Benthanu 
Mr Michael Me Pari and for the 
plaintiffs. 

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE 
said that in submitting that the 
privilege against self-incrimina¬ 
tion had hot been properly claimed 
the plaintiffs had relied on a series 
of authorities which included 
Webb v East ((1880) 5 Exch D 106): 
Lamb v Munster (flSSZ) 10 QBD 


1109 and National Association of 
Operative Plasterers v Smithies 
([1906] AC 434). 

in the experience of all three 
members of the present court it 
had always been the practice that if 
any witness sought to rely on the 
-privilege, whether as a reason for 
not answering a question in the 
witness box or for not answering 
an interrogatory or for not disclos¬ 
ing a document an discovery, the 
objection had to be taken by the 
claimant on his or her oath. 

That that was the established 
practice was dearly shown by 
those authorities. 

It was plain that die claimant 
did not have to give chapter and 
verse to show why disclosure, or 
answering a question or an 
interrogatory might incriminate 
him. As Lord Denning. Master of 
the Rolls, pointed out in Rio Tinto 
Zinc Corporation v Wextinghouse ■ 


Electric Corporation Q197S] AC 
547.574) to require him to do that 
might expose him to the very peril 
against which the privilege existed 
io protect him. 

It was also plain that the 
riraimstanoes of die case might of 
themselves show that a risk of 
prosecution existed: see R v Boves 
((1861) 1 B&-S-3IL.329L It was not. 
therefore incumbent on a party 
seeking to exercise the privilege 
himself re describe in detail the 
peril towhich he might be exposed. 

That rule did not however in any 
way dispense with the need for a 
daim to be made on oath by the 
claimant, even if support for the 
daim and ns substantiation came 
from elsewhere. 

In the present case it was dear 
beyond argument that the daim 
had not been properly , made and 
as a technical matter the plaintiffs 
would be entitled tn resist the 


appeal on that ground alone. 
However, his Lordship considered 
that that would be an extremely 
technical and unsatisfactory basis 
on which to resolve the appeal. He 
accordingly reviewed the circum¬ 
stances iff the case and concluded 
on ihe facts lhal the daim could not 
bemadeouL 

Lord Justice Morrin and lord 
Justice Buxton agreed. 

Solicitors: Chabra Cass & Co, 
Criddewood; Harris da Silva; 
Magrath & Co. 


Wilson v Governors of Sa¬ 
cred Heart Roman Catholic 
Primary ScfaooL Carlton 
Before Lord Justice Hirst and Lord 
Justice M anted 
judgment November 5[ 

On the facts it was not necessary 
for a primary school to employ a 
supervisor at the end of the school 
day to ensure pupils’ safety’ in the 
school yard on their way our of 
school. 

The Court of Appeal so held 
allowing an appeal by the gov¬ 
ernors of the Sacred Heart Roman 
Catholic Primary School, Carbon, 
Nottinghamshire, against liability 
for negligence and damages of 
£4,770 for personal injury awarded 
to Danial Wilson. a minor suing 
by his mother and next friend 
Beverley Wilson, by Judge K. 
Manhewman. QC in Nottingham 
County Court on July 17.1996. 

Miss Bryony Clark for the 
school; Mr PhUip Tunon for the 
pupa. 

LORD JUSTICE MANTELL 
said Danial. then aged nine, had 
been injured an his way to the 
school gate at the end of the school 
day. He had been confronted by 
another boy. Adam, waving his 


coat like a lasso. The coat had 
struck Danial in the eye. 

Danial’s claim boiled down to 
an allegation that the school was in 
breach of its duty of care in failing 
to ensure ihar the passage from the 
school door to the gate was 
supervised and that had a super¬ 
visor been un duty Adam would 
not have behaved as he did. 

The judge had directed himself 
in law that ihe school should take 
such care as a reasonable father 
would of his family and had 
decided that that required adult 
supervision at the end of the school 
day. 

ft was argued for the school that 
the judge had set too high a 
standard or care and lhal the 
finding that the mere presence of 
an authorised adult would haw 
inhibited Adam was unwarranted. 

There was evidence that care 
assistants were on duty in the 
lunch hour bur there was no 
particular history to show the 
necessity of such assistants at 
going-home. time. From age sue 
Danial had been going home 
unaccompanied. No one suggested 
his mother was failing in her duty 
by not meeting him at the school. 

The confrontation might just as 
well have taken place outside the 


school gates. The appeal would be 
allowed. 

LORD JUSTICE HIRST agreed. 
It was essential to the judge's 
reasoning and tn Mr Turtun's 
argument that a comparison 
should be drawn between the 
lunch break when the children 
were supervised and the time 
when the children went home 
where there was no supervision. 
That was not a proper comparison. 

The headmaster’s evidence wa.** 
that of the 2IXJ pupils in ihe school 
the dining hall held 9U and the 
meal was taken in shifts. There 
were 110 pupils in the playground 
throughout more than an hour. 

The need for supervision uver 
the lunch period was obvious jnd 
accorded to standard practice in 
schools. 

The very short period in which 
the pupils ran or walked from the 
door to the exit gates was quite 
different even allowing for the fact 
that the deponing pupils were 
likely to be high spirited. 

There was no evidence that 
supervision at that period was 
standard practice as it surds 
wuuld he if it were necessary. 

Solicitors: Berryman & Co. Not¬ 
tingham; " Huntsmans. 
Nottingham. 


Scots Law Report November 281997 Outer House 


No indemnity after settlement 


f Enterprise (Caledonia) 
d v London Bridge Eng^ 
ering Ltd and Others 
fore Lord Capfan 
dgment September 2| 
tore insurers had serried claims 
damages against their insured 
respect of deaths and personal 
uries cm the Piper Alpha plat- 
m in 1988. the insured had no. 
hi to be indemnified by third 
■ties who had granted the 
ured contractual indemnities in 
peel of the same loss as that 
e-red by the insurance policy, 
rfi a claim required to be 
ranced by die insurers by way of 
■ighr to contribution from the 
emnifier. 

jord Caplan. sitting in ihe Outer 
use of the Court of Session, so 
d absolving the defenders in six 
seven actions for a total of 
500 . 000 . which had been heard 
est cases, in respect of a total of 
actions raised by Elf Enter- 
se (Caledonia) Ltd (formerly 
CAL) seeking reimbursement 
ibour £ 130000 . 000 . paid to ihe 
lilies of the men killed in die 
Josion and fire on the Piper 
ha off-shore plafform in 1S68. 

I to the survivors, from con¬ 
dors who had been engaged by 
n in connection with (he oj*rra- 

i of the platform. 

be actions were brought on 
enmities obliging the defenders 
nake good to the pursuers any 
: occurred to them through the 
ih or injuiy of any of the 
mders' employees. In the sev- 

ii action Lord Caplan granted . 
ree for payment to the pursuers 
.12.685.57. 

Ir Odin Macaulay, QC, Mr 
ric Batchelor and Mr Leo 
(fold for the pursuers; Mr Alan 
nston. QC, Mr Heriot Cume. 

. Mr Richard KeavQC. and 
James Wolffe for the 
mders. 

ORD CAPLAN, having ddiv- 
] his opinion on other matters 
i which this report ts nor 
rerned, continued at pl.423 of 


lav 381 of the hearing, in the 
y of their submissions, the 
ers had advanced an argu- 
hat six of the seven actions 
irrelevant because they 
have been raised in uie 
of the pursuers' insurers 
the defenders for 
uoon. 

d to be said that that came 

hat as a surprise seeing that 


the case had proceeded for 381 days 
without a whisper about the ques¬ 
tion of contribution. Thai such a 
fundamental argument should 
only emerge at the last gasp of 
such a long hearing, prima fade 
(fid not seem in harmony with a 
legal system that prided itself on 
the availability of preliminary 
procedures for disposing of points 
that were purely points of law. 

Nevertheless, his Lordship held, 
the parties having agreed on proof 
before answer rather titan simply 
proof, neither had waived its right 
to argue points .of law after 
evidence, distinguishing Lade v 
Largs Baking Co ((186312 M 17). - 

The pursuers’ insurers had set¬ 
tled the majority of the claims that 
were the subject erf proceedings 
under the indemnities. If the 
pursuers recovered then, tbeir 
underwriters would have rights of 
subrogation. There was an un¬ 
insured element, but in only one of 
the present seven cases, against 
Stena Offshore, had the pursuers 
required to make a settlement 
payment of ELL6S5J7 of their own 
resources. 

A party could only recover under 
an indemnity in respect of loss 
incurred. The defenders' point was 
that the pursuers had already been 
indemnified by their insurers and 
could not be compensated twice. 
The tosses cowed by. and the 
beneficiaries of the insurance and 
the indemnities were the same. 

Where in such a case there were 
two mdemnifiers their liability was 
joint and several, and if either paid 
more than his share then he was 
entitled to relief from his ah 
obligams to the extent of their pro 
rata share [Glaag Contract (2nd 
edition) p206: Moss v Patman 
(1993 SC 300J), for otherwise the 
fatter would benefit from unjust 
enrichment 

Unlike a right of subrogation in 
an action arising our of a delicr. 
such a right of relief resided in the 
co-oblig&nt directly; see Sickness 
and Accident Assurance Associ¬ 
ation Ltd v General Accident 
Assurance Corporation Ltd ((1892) 
19 R^n). Albion Insurance Co Ltd 
v Government Insurance Office 
((1969) 121 CIR 342). 

The question was whether there 
was any justification in confuting 
the application of those principles 
to insurance alone, hi Eagle Star 
Insurance Co v. Provincial In¬ 
surance (J1994J I AC 130) Lord 
Woolf had expressed the view that 
*e law of contribution applied w a 
statutory as opposed to a contrac¬ 


tual indemnity. What the pursuers 
expressly claimed were the 
subrogation rights erf (heir insur¬ 
ers. They referred to Darnell v 
Tibbies ((1880) 5 QBD 56(9 which 
concerned a tenant's obligation to 
repair the property, where the 
Court of Appeal had held the 
landlord’s insurers were entitled to 
be put in the place or the assured. 

Contribution among joint debt¬ 
ors liable in respect of the same 
loss did not seem to have been 
argued. The pursuers also argued 
that the question of contribution 
arose only in the context of 
insurance and not where collateral 
indemnities were included in con¬ 
tracts for the provision of services: 
compare Scottish Amicable Her¬ 
itable Securities Association v 
Northern Assurance Co ((1883) 11R 
302). 

They referred to Pan's Bank Ltd 
v Albert Mines Syndicate ((190(9 5 
Com Cas 116) but that was not on 
all fours with the present case: 
there the sureties were liable for a 
predetermined sum, whereas the 
insurers had accepted liability only 
for a loss on the sureties 
defaulting. 

Their obligations had been dif¬ 
ferent but hoe both insurers and 
contractors were pledged to cover 
the same loss. Nor an the terms of 
the pdiey m Parr's Bank could the 
insurers have been obliged by the 
sureties to contribute towards any 
payment made by ihe latter. What 
mattered was whether the parties 
had undertaken the same risk to 
the same common creditor. 

However different the genesis of 
the contracts, there could be no 
doubt that the pursuers’ insurers 
and the contractors; if they had 
any obligations to OPCAl and the 
participants, had it under con¬ 
tracts of indemnity 

it was dear from the authorities 
that the contracts that gave rise to 
the joint debt did not need to be 
identical 

If a party enjoyed the benefit of 
two or more indemnities covering 
the same loss and he recovered his 
whole loss it was difficult to see on 
what principle he retained a right 
to enforce his indemnity against 
the non-paying indemnifier. Hts 
kiss bad been satisfied. 

There was no principle that 
entitled him m enforce his lass 
from' the indemnifier os there was 
in the case of a wrongdoer, 
perhaps if the indemnities had 
been granted to cover only facts 
occasioned by die indemnified 
own negligence some nice ques¬ 


tions would arise, but that was not 
the case here. No one suggestc that 
the defenders had been negligem. 

Tbe question ought to be settled 
on the basis of principle rather 
than by reference to any rigid 
classification such as insurance 
and non-insurance. The law had 
rejected attempts to confine 
contribution to particular cate¬ 
gories of insurance. 

His Lordship's conclusion there¬ 
fore was that the insurers of 
OPCAL and the participants did 
not have any right of subrogation 
in respect of the indemnities 
granted by the defenders. They 
nad no title or interest to sue. If the 
insurers wanted to recover their 
outlay that would have to be by 
way of a separate action based an 
contribution. 

His Lordship sympathised with 
die pursuers' complaint that the' 
question of contribution had been 
raised late. Clearly, however, the 
whole matter would require to be 
addressed in relation to expenses. 

His Lordship's conclusions 
meant that because of the issue of 
contribution, he would grant de¬ 
cree absolving all of the defenders 
other than Siena Offshore. He 
would accordingly award the 
pursuers decree against the 
defenders for EL2.6E557. 

It rather concerned his Lordship 
that after a proof of murdinaie 
length (over four years) six of the 
seven test actions had to be derided 
on a preliminary point of law. 
There might be considerations 
which had not as yet. or perhaps 
could nor be brought to die court's 
attention. 

Nevertheless, the defenders 
might want to (teal with that 
matter when expenses were dis¬ 
cussed. However, not all of the 
time had necessarily been wasted. 

Hie amount that his Lordship 
had awarded in the Siena action 
did not properly reflect die value of 
that litigation, it was a"leading 
case and only me or the cases (hat 

had to be resolved. 

The total amount was over US 
$9 miHion. excluding interest 
Thus the derision in the Stena case 
could well be very important. 

Law agents: Pauli ft Williamson; 
Simpson ft Marwick. WS. 

Correction 

In Billon v Fanner Highlands Ltd 
(The Times November 20) the 
advocate for the pursuer was Mr 
Andrew Smith. 


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TENNIS 


CRKTOFSTACHE 


■ Davis Cup 
1 draw adds 


to pressure 
on Chang 


From Julian Muscat in gothenburg 


WITH Pete Sampras, the 
world No 1, here to represent 
his country, the United States 
start as warm favourites today 
to lift the Davis Cup far the 
32nd time. Adding ballast to 
Sampras’S daunting presence 
is Michael Chang, the world 
No 3. who contests the open¬ 
ing rubber against Jonas 
Bjorkman, the linchpin of 
Sweden. 

In truth, however, this tie is 
far more delicately poised. The 
host nation duly received the 
lift It wanted yesterday, when 
the Bjorkman-Chang match 
was drawn first. 

Only two weeks ago in 
Hanover. Bjorkman, probably 
the most improved player of 
1997. inflicted a straight-sets 
defeat on his opponent A 
similar outcome will require 
Sampras to beat Magnus 
Lars son to level the tie — and 
Larsson has mastered "the 
master" on their past two 
encounters. He is the only 
man to have beaten Sampras 
twice this year. 

Such a cameo is all the more 
plausible for the impassioned 
support of an 11,000 sell-out 
crowd, all of them yearning 
for an extention to Sweden's 
outstanding recent achieve¬ 
ments. This is Sweden's elev¬ 
enth final appearance in 23 
years and it offers them the 
ideal opportunity to atone for 
their surprise defeat by France 
last year. 

Certainly Larsson could not 
wait to get to square up to 
Sampras. "The most impor¬ 
tant thing is that I know what 
it feels like to beat him," he 
said, "and he knows that he 
can lose to me if he doesn't 
play to his best-" 

Larsson's sentiments were 
endorsed by Carl-Axel 
Hageskog. die Sweden team 
captain. "I think he has a 


really good chance to do 
something big against Sam¬ 
pras and Bjorkman has good 
memories from his match 
against Chang in Hanover." 

It is not inconceivable that 
Sweden might end the day 
with a 2-0 lead in the best-of- 
Sve final. "He’s tough and 
very talented." Sampras said 
after learning that he would 
face Larsson. “He's an awk¬ 
ward player and not easy to 
play at ail. He will obviously 
be confident because he's beat¬ 
en me twice. But I did beat 
him pretty easily at the Upton 
tournament and I feel like I'm 
playing well." 

Even Sampras, so com¬ 
posed when playing far him¬ 
self. acknowledged the extra 
burden of representing his 
nation. "It'S different out there 
because you’re playing for 
your country, your team¬ 
mates,” he said. "This is not 
going to be an easy week." 

One of the biggest surprises 
in the build-up was Sweden's 
decision to play the tie on a 
fast, carpet court. Convention¬ 
al wisdom held that, with 
Sampras vulnerable on clay. 
Sweden would lay such a 
surface to neutralise his game. 
The parly line yesterday was 
that Hageskog simply chose 



Chang and Sampras are deep in thought at practice 


Sweden could effectively win 
the tie with the doubles rubber 
tomorrow. 

The doubles is probably the 
weak link for the United 
States. Even outside the Davis 
Cup, Bjorkman and Nicklas 
Kulti have formed a successful 
alliance throughout the year. 
They will fancy their chances 


‘Larsson is the only man to have 
beaten Sampras twice this year* 


the surface preferred by his 
players, although further 
analysis suggests that the host 
nation wants Chang to feel 
uncomfortable. 

Chang's record on carpet 
tins year is woeful: he has lost 
all three matches on the 
surface. Should he lose to both 
Bjorkman and Larsson, then 


against whichever combina¬ 
tion the Americans field. 

A measure of Chang'S ap¬ 
prehension was evident when 
he was asked about the speed 
of the court Sampras, only 
once defeated on carpet all 
year, had earlier dealt with the 
question by describing the 
court as one of the quietest he 


had played on. But Chang 
begged to differ. "I didn’t think 
it was that fast,” he said. “So 
maybe it is good for Pete and 
good for me, too." 

Such mental tribulations 
are what make the Davis Cup 
a unique event; one in which 
world rankings and present 
form can have little bearing on 
the outcome. 

This United States team 
looks formidable on paper — 
but so, tea did the 1984 
vintage, comprising John 
McEnroe and Jimmy Con¬ 
nors. bi a memorable upset 
they succumbed to Sweden 4-1 
in the final in this very indoor 
arena. It is little wonder that 
Tom Gullikson, the United 
States coach, talked of laying a 
few ghosts came Sunday. 

DRAW Today: J Bjcrtsnan v M Chang. M 
Lotsaon v P Sennas. Tomorrow: 
Bjackman and N KuH v T Main end J Start 
(pairings subject to ates&on ip to one 
hour before start], fkxxloy: Sarrpras v 
Bjorkman. Larsson v Chang. 


CRICKET 


Shah making late start to 


busy winter programme 


By John Stern 


OWAIS SHAH. 19, the Mid¬ 
dlesex batsman who has been 
named as captain of the Eng¬ 
land Under-19 party that flies 
to South Africa tonight for a 
ten-week tour, is to miss the 
early matches, including the 
first internati o nal. 

Shah has been given 
mission to complete the 
term of a degree in business 
administration, a part-time 
course that he is spreading 
over six winters. 

In Shah’s absence, the team 
will be led by Paul Franks, the 
Nottinghamshire seam bow¬ 
ler, who took a first-class hai- 
trick-against Warwickshire in 
July. Stephen Peters, the Essex 
opening batsman, will be vice¬ 
captain until Shah arrives in 
three weeks. 

Extensive preparations for 
the tour have included lectures 
from Michael Atherton and 
David Lfayd, who were keen 
to reinforce their ideal of 
Team England", stressing 
that the leap from youth to 
Test level is not as great as it 
once may have seemed. 

The 15 members of the party 
can all take heart from the 
example of Ben Hollioake. 
This time last year the Surrey 
youngster was setting out for 
Pakistan an a similar trip and 
made such rapid progress that 
he won his first Test cap last 
summer. 

Shah could be on a similar 
fast track. "David Graveney 
[the chairman of the England 
selectors] was in on tiie selec¬ 
tion process and he sees it as 



Shah: departure delayed 


part of Owais’s cricket educa¬ 
tion," John Abrahams, the 
team coach said. "He has 
extra responsiblity and it is 
important to see how he deals 
udth h. I think he is just 
starting to come to terms with 
what is involved and the fact 
that he is no longer just one of 
the bpys.” 

David Sales and Dean 
Coster,.. who also went to 
Pakistan, have been promoted 
to the A team for the expedi¬ 


tion this winter to Kenya and 
Sri Lanka. 

Shah will arrive in time for 
the second international and 
the three one-day games, 
which lead on to the first 
Under-19 World Cup to be 
held for ten years. Australia, 
tiie holders, are taking the 
] 6-nation tournament so seri¬ 
ously that Allan Border has 
been appointed as coach. _ 

England have a relatively 
inexperienced squad but they 
should qualify comfortably 
from their group, which con¬ 
tains New Zealand, Namibia, 
and an Asian nation, the 
.identify of which will not be 
known for at least a weds, 
when the qualification tourna¬ 
ment has been completed. 

The top two teaxns in each erf 
the four groups qualify for a 
Super League and the top two 
from that go forward to the 
final , at The Wanderers in 
Johannesburg. 

At tbe start of February, 
Shah will link up with the A 
team for the Sri Lanka leg of 
their trip, as will Jonathan 
Pbwell, the Essex off spinner. 


ENGLAND UNDER-19 DETAILS 


NATWEST ENGLAND UNDER-19: O A 
Shah (Mtddesex, cacXain), p j Franks 
(NoOnflham&tera), 1 NFtanagan (Eased). M 
A Gough (Durban), J O Grow (Essex). G 
R Haywood (Sussex). RWTKey (Kart), A 
W Lsraman (Mtdctescx), R J Logan 
(NaittarTOtanehka), G R Napier (Essex). S 
D Peseta (Essex), J C PWn5 (Esttsfc P 
Schofield (Lancashre). G P Swann (Nocto- 
anptonshfra), N J WNton (Sussex). J T 


ITINERARY: Dec S-& Western Province 
Academy (Capa Town): Dec && The 
Boland Undar-19 (Pearl): Dec 11-14: Rnrt 


Test v South Africa Under-19 (Capo 
Town); Dae 17-19: v South African Students 
(Port Elizabeth); Deo 2D: v South African 
Students (Pat Hzsbfflh); Dee 22: v South 
Africa Schools Colts Oirfdri; Deo 23: v 
South Africa Schools (rat ESzabethfc Dec 
27-30c Second Test (FodwiW; Jan 3: Firet 
one-day kranotfanri v South Afrtae Under 1 
IB (BenonQ: Jon 4: Second °no-day 
WemeBonef (FochvBe): Jan & TIM one- 
dsy international (Conuion). . 

UNDER-19 WORLD CUP: Jen 12: v New 
Zealand (Bandje sta ntefri): Jen 18; v Na- 
mfeta (Randta B tontefri); Jsn IS: v to be 
confirmed (Pretoria); Jen l&Gtt Siper 
League: Feb 1: Rw (Johannesburg). 


Middle order take 
control for India 


AN UNBROKEN 98-run sixth-wicket partner¬ 
ship between Sonrav Ganguly and Anil 
Kumble tightened India’s grip on the second 
Test against Sri Lanka in Nagpur yesterday. 
They took Indfa to 401 for five at the end of the 
second day. Ganguly's 67 included 11 bound¬ 
aries, while Kumble contributed 42. 

Earlier. Rahul Dravid and Nayjot Sidhu 
had carried their second-wicket stand to 137 
before Sidhu fell for 79. Dravid hit ten fours 
and a six in compiling 92 and Mohammad 
Azharuddin sustained the tempo with an 
impressive 62. 


Australia’s hopes 
held up by rain 


RAIN ruined the opening day of the third Test 
match between Australia and New Zealand in 
Hobart yesterday, with only erne hour’s play 
possible. 

Mark Taylor, the Australia captain, won bis 
first toss of the series and chose to bat; but he. 
and his fellow opener, Matthew Elliott, faced 
only 15 overs before the weather intervened: 

Australia, bidding to take the series 50 after 
big wins in Brisbane and Perth, were 39 for no 
wicket, with Elliott on 2D and Taylor 18L 
Attempts to get bade on the field were thwarted 
by persistent rain. 


RUGBYLEAGUE 


Cup put 
back in 
overhaul 


of game 


BY CHRISTOPHER IRVINS 


THE Super League inter¬ 
national board is set to 
abandon the Would Cup in 
the southern hemisphere 
n«st year in favour of a tn- 

series tournament in Aus¬ 
tralia, between Great 
Britain, Australia and 

New Zealand, during a 

three-week break in the 
domestic season next July. 

A simultaneous four na¬ 
tions' tournament featur¬ 
ing England, Scotland, 
Ireland and France, is 
proposed and, rather than 
the Wortd Cup. which is 
being postponed u ntil 
1999. New Zealand and 
Western Samoa will tour 
Britain next autumn for 
the first time. 

Domestically, the 12 
Super League dubs have 
endorsed the switch to an 
Australian-style top-five 
play-off, which The Times 
revealed earlier this 
month. The end to the first- 
past-the-pos t sy stem 
mpan< that, from next 
season, the champion dob 
will emerge from a grand 
final at Old Trattord, 
which will replace the 
usual finale of the Pre¬ 
miership in September. 

The play-offs will be 
held over four weekends. 
The top league finishers 
will need to win only one 
game to reach the final, 
while the leading three are 
guaranteed a second 
chance should they lose 
their first match. Fbr the 
fifth-placed side to become 
champions they would 
have to beat all four teams 
above them. It is a popular 
system hi Australia that, 
importantly, could lure 
sponsors after the with- 
drawal .of Stones. As well 
as sustaining interest, 
there is the possible added 
incentive, of a revamped 
world dub championship 
; between the British and 
Australasian grand 
finalists'- 


GUIDE TO 1998 INTERNATIONAL AND COUNTY CRICKET FIXTURES 


APRIL 


14-UrflVERSTTY MATCHES (three days) 
Fan ner's: Cambri dge Untvererty v 
Northamptonshire 

The Parks: CbdocO Untaarsty v Susam 
IT-fiRJTANNTC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 
* Dertv Dwbyrfae v I 
Bristol: Gloucestershire v I 


Cantarbuy: Kant v MdeOesex 
The Ovafc Stxrey v N urth a mpta r ah ra 


1 How Sussex v Lancashire 
Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Durham 
Worcester Wc ucaa t a rsli ra v Essex 
Haadngtey: Yortehre v Somerset 
UNIVERSITY MATCHES (three days) 

* Fame's: Cambridge University v 
LgtcniBishkB 

The Parks: Oxtord Uniraraty w Hampshire 
19-AXA LIFE LEAGUE 
Bristol: Gtauc as tefshre v Glamorgan 
Cantabury: Kara v Mxktesex 
Tha Oral: Surrey v Northampton sh ire 
Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Durham 
W orcester Worcestershire v Essex 
H aa d fr igtayi Yorkshire v Somerset 

21-AXA UFE LEAGUE 
Derby: Dabytora » N u t U n fl h H f reJ a b 
IHovkSumbcv Lancashire 
2&0RTTANNC ASSURANCE CHAMPtONSHP 
Cheste-ia-Street Durham v Gtoucesterahke 

Oi ahns tord.- Essex v Sussex 

Cartkff: Gtamorgwi v Kent 
Southampton: Hampshra v NorBia nanonteSw 
Old Trattord: Lancashire v MrdcSesex 
Leicester: Lscesaarchire v Wbrcestarstere 

Tatgfloo: Somerset v Nottinghamsh ir e 

Tha Ovet: Surrey « WarwcksWre 

Heacfingtay: Yoriestere v Detbyshre 
2&AXA LIFE LEAGUE 
Chaster-to-Street Durham v Gtoucasw shire 
Chtemtatfc Essex v Sussex 
Ca nttfcGta moi cjan vK ant ^ 
Soulleirfton: Hampshire v Northamptonshire 
Old Trattord: Lancashire v Mddkxax 
Leicester L&cesierchre v Worcestershire 
Teuton: Somerset v Noamghamshre 

The Oral: Surrey v Warwdohre 

Hearflngtoy: Yorkshire v Derbystere 
2WEN90N AND HEDGES CUP 

Derby: Derbystere v Durham 
Sout hampton. H ar rp s tere v Surrey 
Taunton: Somerset * Kara 
Headnutay: Yomshre v Worcestershire 
UMVEHSITY MATCH (One day) 

The Paris: British Universities v 

Northamptortshre 

29-8ENSON AND HEDGES CUP 
CardUt Glamorgan v Essex 
Old Traltord.' Lancashire v Wamtcksrtre 
Lord's: Middesex v Susan 
Luton (Wantown Perk) Mnor Counties v 
Nort ha mptonshire 
30BENSON AND HEDGES CUP 
Taunton: Somerset v British Llnlrersttss 
The Orat: Surrey v Soucestersh ne 


MAY 


1- BENSON AND HEDGES CUP 
F e nn er’s: British Unwersdies v H a mpshire 
DubBn (Castle Ararats): tretand v Gtamorgan 
Lei c e s ter Lercestarchra v Lancashire 

Trent Bridge: Noteng ha itat uw v Minot Counoea 
Edgtostan: Warwickshire v Northamptonshire 
Worcester Worcestershire v D aL y si e w 

2- flENSON AK) HEDGES CUP 
Canterbury: Kant v Gbueestershra 

Trent Bridge: Noffingharrehre v Lecesiershire 
hove: Sussex v Essex 
UnlBigmr: Scodand » Yorkshire 
SAXA UFE LEAGUE 
Lorrfr Wddtasax v Gbmogan 
Aiundet Suaa v HampsNre 
W orces te r Worcestershire v Durham 
4kBENSONANDHSX3£SCUP 
Derby, Derbyshire * YorhSlw* 

Chelmsford: Essex v Ireland 
Bristol Gloucestershire vSomoreer 
Leicester. L tt m &te «Ww v Wairactetere 
Northampton: NallWi**unStore v 
Nattrighamshira 

Tho Orat Surrey v Brtah UnwrMM 

Worcester: Wbreotenmre v Scotland 
SWENSON AND HEDGES CUP 
Lord's; Mtfdtefiax v Ireland 
Lafranhanc Minor Counties v Lancashire 
Taunton. Somerset v Hampshre 
Home Sussex v Glamorgan 

S-3ENSON AND HEDGES CUP 
Chwwr-te-Street Durham u Scotland^ 
Bristol: Gtoucesteretire v Brash Umesties 
Canterbury: Kent v Surrey 
Lakentam: Mterar Ccunttes v Wawsishfro 
Northampton: Northamptonshire v 


7-BBBON AND HEDGES CUP 

Durham u Wdrcaucratwe 
Chsimstdnt EistacvMtdtSesax 
Southampton: HampsWre y Kent 
Trent Bridge: Ncscjn0hamahiw v Uncastero 
B^ENSON AND HSJGeS CUP 

Leicester Lessatwshre v Minor Court «3 
Friritei 9oo0and v Dstbystere 
The Orat Surrey v Somerect 
MOtSON AND HEDGES CUP 

The Perittc UrararetBse u ttent 


CerdHt Glamorgan v Mktdesex 
Brtatot Gmnestershine v Hampshire 
EgMorc Iratard w Sussex 
Ota Tmflortfr L a nc a shire v I 
Edgbnston: waranckstere v I 
Haadngley: Yorkshire v Durham 
KWOCA UFE LEAGUE 
CerdHt Glamorgan v Somereet 
Bristot Gtoucestoshbe v Kent 
Southampton: HaiTpahire v Essex 
Old Trtetant Lancashke v DertrysNre 
Trent Bridge: NoUtnohomshke v Durham 
Eda ba storv WanMc&htre v L e to a s terehlre 
Headtogtey. Yorkshire v Sirrey 

11-UNtVERSnY MATCH ( 

The Parks: Oxford LtmuHsityvt 
I^BRirANMC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 
Derby: Dertay sh se v Wenwtckshire 
Chesterto-Street: Durham v Essex 
BristoL' Gtoucestershtre v Leicestershire 
Southampton: Hampshire v Surrey 
Canterbury: Kent v Lancashre 
LpRfa: Middesex v Somerset 
Northampton: Northamptonshire v Yorkshire 
Trent Bridge: Noninghagnnshre v Srasee 
UNtVSWTY MATCH (Item days) 

Fenner’s: Cambridge Urivasity v Gtamorgan 
14-VODAFCWE CHALLB4GE SERES 
(three days) 

Worcester Woroestershtra v South Africans 
IfrUNVERSTTY MATCHES (one day] 

The Paries: Cambridge v Oxford 
17-AXALffE LEAGUE 
Derby: Derbyshire « Wanwckshse 
QwHer-toStreec Durham v Esssc 
Bristot Gtoocestarshlro v Lercssterstere 
Southampton: Hampstere v Surrey 
Canterbury: Kent v Lancashire 
Lord's: Mxkflesex v Somereer 
Northampton: Northamptonshire v Yorkshire 
Trent Bridge: Noonghamstere v Sussex 
TOUR MATCH (one day) 

Arunctt Duho ol Nortofir’s » v South Africans 
1&UNIVERsrrY MATCHES flteee days) 

Foiwm’k Camtjndga University v Durham 
Die Parks: Oxtord University v Wamtdutwe 
19-AXA UFE LEAGUE 


Derby: Dwbys h rev Lwcesterchre 
CerdHt Oamoigan v Yorkshire 


TBC: MxWtesax v Essex 
Trent Bridge: Notang ha m s tire v 
Gioucesteshxe 

TsunCom Somerset v Northamptonshire 
Wbtoaatec: Worcesterchre v Sussai 
TOUR MATCH [one^j^ ^ 


Canterbury: Kent vt 


i Africans 


21-TEXACO TROPHY 
D-E OVAL- ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA 
(Bret onrKley inte rna tion a l) 

BRITAIN ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 


* Gloucester Gfouoesterstiire v Yorkshire 

* Canterbury: Kent v Durtiem 


■TBC: Mxkfresexv W or ce stershire 
■ Northampton: North am ptonshire v Gtamorgan 

* Taunton: Somerset v Suney 

* Ho rah a m: Sussex v Derfawhre 

* Edgbasto n: Wanmckshini v No mn gh a nBWre 

23- TEXACO TROPHY 

OLD TRAFFORD; ENGLAND v S AFRICA 
(aocond ono-day WemaBonal) 

24- TEXACO TROPHY 

HEADMGLEY: ENGLAND « SOUTH AFRICA 
(Hrd orMhday Intemattonal) 


2S-AXA UFE LEAGUE 
Chefrnslord: Essex v Lancashire 
Glouceotar GkMSSterstere v Yoriotere 
Canterbury: Kent v Durham 
Lflloestar Lsrceals^shiroY Hampstere 
TBC; Uddtasax v WoKSGterstere 
Northampton: Northamptnnstere v Gtamongan 

Taunton: Somerset v Suney 
Horsham: Sussex v Derbyshire 
Edgbaetotr Wanwctetere v Notbngtiamshsa 
27^ENSON AND hEDGES CUP 

Quartsf-Snati 
TOUR MATCH (one dayl 
Stone: Minor COuntns XI v South Africans 
29-BOTANfW ASSURANCE CHAMPfONEMP 

* ClwaterfleM: Darte^we v Loeestarehre 

* TBC; Mddtesex v Gtamorgan 

*Tren Bridge: Noang hs m s hire v Durfiem 
•TheOwtSwreyviSin! 

’ Worcester. Worcastarshre v Sussn 
.Y PPftp PNE CHALLENGE SERIES (fbur day^ 
BtN W: Clau cenershre v Somh Africans 
LWVBWTY MATCH (three days) 

The Paritk Oxtord Uniwrariy v Yorkstra 
31-AXA UFE LEAGUE 


Bkml: Essn v NorthcvTtotonstwB 
Taurttm: Somereet v Wawdrstere 


JUNE 


MHTWMCAOTLXIANCE GtAMPtONSHS* 
Cheuterfiett Derbvsfwe vGtoucBStorshM 
Word: &mx V Notttoghamat^, 
Southampton: HainiMwe ¥ Gte m a my i 
Tunbridge Wsdr KbrtvSusasr 

TBC: M0dtewx v Durham 

Northampton: NpnhamptnnsiaB * imten 
Taunton: SonwraM v Wa re t flrai B a 
The Out Surey « Worcasterehse 

■y; Yorkshire v Lelcestostwe 


Counties adopt flexible trend 


THERE is a radical look to the fixture list for the 1998 
English cricket season, which was announced 
yesterday. It is less rigid than of old, partly because of 
an innovative international programme — which 
involves the first triangular onfrday tournament to be 
staged in England — and partly as a result of the 
flexibility introduced fry Lord MacLaurin of 
Knebworth’s blueprint (Simon Wilde writes). 

Competition among the counties should be fierce 
on several fronts, with top-eight finishers in the 
Britannic Assurance county championship qualifying 
for a new Super Cup one-day competition in 1999. 
That year, too, the Axa life League will be split into 
two divisions, with those finishing in the top nine in 
1998 guaranteeing themselves places in the first 
division. 

The Axa Life League — so often known as the 
"Sunday league" — will no longer be so simply 
labelled, with counties arranging games on days of 
the week that suit them. One reason is the trend 


towards midweek, floodlit matches. Between than, 
Gloucestershire, Lancashire. Surrey. Sussex, War¬ 
wickshire and Yorkshire are to stage more than a 
dozen floodlit games and there could be more. 

There is a consequent disruption of the county 
championship — the first three rounds of which, for 
example, start on Friday, Thursday and Wednesday 
respectively. 

One of tire most striking features of the list is the 
potential dearth of Middlesex matches at Lord’s, 
where part of the square is to be relaid. Discussions 
are going on between Middlesex and MCC, the owner 
of the ground, as to how fixtures can best be 
distributed, but tire county may play matches at 
Southgate and Shenley, as well as at (heir usual 
outground, Uxbridge 

Apart from the visits by South Africa and Sri Lanka, 
who take part in the inaugural triangular tournament 
in August tours wfll also be undertaken fry Australia 
A ana Pakistan Under-19. 


♦FIRST CORNHtLL TEST MATCH 
* EDGBASTON: ENGLAND v SOUTH AFfVCA 


7-AXAUFE LEAGUE 
Chwmriefcfc Dwftystiue v Gtouce s »gmg 
Sout ham pto n: Hanyi^xte v Gtanagan 


Tunbridge Write: Kant v Sussex 
- TBC: Mkfcfesmv Durham 


; NorihartotonaMe v Lancashire 
f. Yoriishre v LftceaorchxB 
&8ENSON AND HEDGES CUP 


10-TOUR MATCH (one day) 

S Leicester or Trent Bridge: I 
Notui u f lamsh a e v Souih Africans 
(Wanmctctm v South Africans it bodi otMities 
h Benson and 


t Benson end Hedges wn-flnals} 


11- BRITANNIC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 
Che ataf 4 o4j free t Durham v Nath a mptonshra 
CMmatord: Essex v Surrey 

Cartfift Gtamoraai v Worcestershire 
Bristot Gtoucesterstene v WanMCkahra 
Oid Traftud: Lancadika v Somer se t 
Latent*: Lacestershra v Kent 
Handing ley: Yorkstere v Hampshire 

12- VOQAFONE CHALLENGE SERIES 

(three days) 

" Arundet Sussex v South Africans 


13- UNIVERSfTY MATCH (three days) 

The Parks Oxtord Urewwy «lAddmex 

14- AXA UFE LEAGUE 

Derby: DeibysterB y MckSasex 
Chestur-te-StnMC Durham v Nonhamctorshra 
Chotmatorct Essex v Surrey 
Cenflt Gtamorgan v Woreasterehra 
Bristot Qouefisterehra u Wanrictatere 
Old Tra&ord: Lancasters v Somerset 
Leicester Laoesteratera v Kant 
Heedtagtoy: Ybrkalwe w Hampstere 

1T-BRTTANNIC ASSURANCE CHAMPtGNSHIP 
Chaster4e^Met Durham v Yorkshae 
Cardiff: Glamorgan » Leioestershira 
D as l ngstoka: Hampshire v DarOyahre 
Contebury: Kant« Notfingnamsnra 
Okf Trattord: Lanc a shre v Surrey 
Northampton: N o rti unpto n sI Mre v Middlesex 
Bath: Somerset v Essex 
Hove: Sussex v Waneckstere (1pm start) 
W orc es ter Womastetstere v G fcmces m reh i re 


IS^ECOND CORMULL TEST MATCH 
• LORO’S: ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRBA 


21-AXA UFE LEAGUE 
Chester-te-Sfreat Durham vYorichbe 
Pontypridd: Gtamorgan w LaicosleraHnB 
Basingstoke: HampaNi* v Oerfay^ibB 
Canterbury: Karr v Notnrgharnsnira 
Non h enywn: Northempio mh iie > Middlesex 
Baltr Somerset v Essex 
Hora: Sussex y Wanas c t aW te 
Worce st er : Worcestershire v GtauesesBrshne 
22AXA UFE LEAGUE 
t Old TraftaKC Lancastwa v Sutny 
24-NATWEST TROPHY list round 
Derby: Dariwtrtre v Cumberland 
lakenham Ncrfotk v Durham 
taieeter (Bougrton Hal CQ: Chasten v Essex 
CardUt Glamorgan v BedtodShre 
Bristol: Gtoueesteshte v Norihemplorisiira 
Bournemouth: Dorset v Hampshra 
Camarbuy: Kent v Cambridgeshire 
Old TrsflbrCt Lancashre * Sussex 
Laicsster Lercestarshiie v StaRcrdshm 
TBC: Uddesm v Herefordshire 
Ootwyn Bay: Mnor Counties Wales v 
NotwgtteiBhse 

Taunton: Somerm * HeBand 
The OvaL- Surey y Buckmgtwnstwe 


Edgbratan: WarwxJcsrtm w betand 
Etfiibtegh: Scotland * Worcesersfwe 
Exmoun Devon v Yorkshre 
TOUR MATCH (tone days) 

FeonertK Brtbsh Unweraaeav South Africans 
2&SRtTAmBC ASSURANCE CHAMPtONSHP 

* Leicester: Lacestershra v Sussex 

■ TBC Mxkflesex v Essex 

* Trent Bridge: Notonghamstere v G tam onj an 

* Taunton: Somerset v Hampshire 

* Eriphes ton: Wanricksh i re v Lancashire 
27-iMVBtSTTY MATCHES (three days) 

* Canterbury: Kent v Oxford Unmsrsrty 

* fte a dfn g ta y : Yorkshire v Carn b n dg e LWra ra ity 
2BAXA LfFE LEAGUE 

The Orat Suney v Worcesters hi re 
TOUR MATCH (one day) 

Northerrerion: Nort ha m pto nshire v South 
Africans 

30-AXAUFE LEAGUE 
t Edgbaston: Wanvxdcshre v Lancashire 


JULY 


t-BHITANMC ASSURANCE CHAIffiONSHP 
Derby: Derbyshire v Essex 

Dorknntcn: Duit*m v Lett 
TBC: Samorgan v Surrey 


Moktetone: Ken v Yoriohre 
Twnt Bridge: Na angf a i shim vMtddesax 
How: Sussex v Somereet ppm start) 
Worce s ter Worcester sh ire v Nonhatnptonstea 
VARSITY MATCH (three days) 

Lord's: Oxtord v Carnbndge 

2-TMRD CORNHtl TEST MATCH 
“ OLD TRAFFORD: ENGLAND vS AFRICA 
5AXAUFE LEAGUE 


Derby: 


: Deftmhfae v Essex 
gton: Duttam v Ldceseratve 


TBC Swriorgor! v Surrey 
Sout ha mpto n : Hampshee v Gtcuc e starshiiia 
Maidstone: Kent tr Yoitertre 
Trent Bridge: Ncffing ha m sh ir e v kMdtesex 
Hrew Susesc v Somerset 
Wonaaar Wbreesterstire < Northa mp tonshire 
WtATWEST TROPHY, second rowid 
CenM or Luton: Glamorgan Or Bedtontatera 

_vuag gg ggifB a Saf wtds hife 

Bristol or Northampton: Gtarca s teratore tt 
Nexfrramfxonshire w Surrey or 
B uci eng ha mstere 

Beumemouto or Southartw ton : Dorsot Of 
Hanpstere v Cheshire or £ss« 

Okf Treflnd or Have: Lancashire or Sussn v 
Devon v Yorkstere 

TBC or Brattmpton: Mdtflesw or Hereto* 
sire v NartoSt or Durham 
Smnsea or Trent Bridge: Minor Caxifes 
Vtates or Me ft ngh a msrare v Somerset or 
Hoaand 

E dgba st on or BaBast Watracketere or Iretavl 
u Kanr a Cambndgnawe 
Etfinbwgh or Worcester Scottand or 
VftrcestEisterB v Dartwstere or Cuntoertand 
TOUR MATCH (one day) 

Ainstar due HoOandv South Africa 
JO-TOUR MATCH (one day) 

DUtfia (Castle Avenu^-Ireland v South Africa 
BOYES STORES CHALLENGE (one day) 
Scenxsough: Tun FfcssXIvThe Ycrkstanen 


11- BB4SON AND HBX3ES CUP 
LORDS: FPML 

NORTHSW B.H Jil HIC» THOPHY (one day) 

Scwbomtighi Yoricstera v Durham 

12- AXAUFE LEAGUE 

Dertry: Derbyshire w Worcestershire 
Trent Bridge: NoCnytiairJTxe v Gtamoigan 


The Orat Surrey v Leicestershire 

Edgbestan: WawcKshsB vKent 
pnatches nraMng Benson and Hedges 
nnelfelsto bepioyed on July 13 or 14J 
TOUR MATCHES (one day) 

Down pa trick: Ireland v South Africa 
Sout ha mpton or Taunton Hampshra or 
Somerset v Sri Lankans 

E ~>toucestershire vSrt Lankans if both oovXles 
Benson and Hedges Bnel) 

WOMEfrTS MATCH tone day) 

Scarborough: England v Austrafca 
(Sret one^fay anematxvBl) 

13-TETLEY BITTER 7ROPHY (one day) 
Searboreu^e Txn Rea'S » v Yorkstere 
lA^RTTAWflC ASSURANCE CHAMPK3NSWP 
CheSenham: Gkxioesterahire v Sussex 

Lythom: Uncashra v Worcestershire 
Leicester. Leeasttrshra v Nort hamp t aa hii e 
VODAFONE CHALLBtGE SERES 

(three dawl 

Oiesuor :; Street: Durham v South Africans 
Taunton Somereet v Sri Lankans 

AXA LIFE LEAGUE 

t Edgbasun: Warwekshn v Hampshra 
OTHER MATCH (one day) 

Scarborough: Heartaches 50 v Imitation XI 
ISBRfXANMC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 
Southsnct Esssi v Kant 
GuMford: Suney y Mddesnc 

Etfgbasan c W an w cl s hre y Hampshra 

Setoborougfr Yorkshire v Nodn gha m fl ilre 
1BAXA UFE LEAGUE 
Chdtanham Gkucastsestere v Sussex 
Leicester L areestBrstera * Northamplon st wB 
VO3AF0NE CHALUEN6E SERES 


- D«tefl>B^shlre i 
"S CarcfiB: Gtamngan 


vSoutn Africans 
h Gtamorgan v Sn Lankans 
TOUR MATCH (one day) 

S Chestar-kHStreot Durham v Australia A 
19-AXA UFE LEAGUE 
Soutosnd: Essex v Kant 
Chetenham; GtouasunTara v 
Northamptonshire 
Teuton: Somerset v Hampshire 
GuldtoRt Surrey v MKfrfesex 
S ca rborough: Yonotera v Haatngnamami 
TOUR MATCH (one day) 

% Chenteta Sbwet Durham v Austrafca A 
2WWA LIFE LEAGUE 
t Old TraSord Lanca sh ire v Woroesterahre 
t How Sussex v Mddtasex 

21- AXA UFE LEAGUE 

T Edgbaston: Wturackstere v Essex 
TOUR MATCH (three djys) 

S Cvtorbuty-. Kent v AustotoA 

22- BVTANMC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 
Cotwyn Bey: Glamorgan vLancashira 
ChafttohencGto u ce a CThlrev Suney 
Portsmouth: Hsrcatere v NuSk'rjJunuJfre 
L onfs: Mkfderexv Yorks hire 
Northampton: Northampfonshre v Derbystira 
Tauntorr. Sameraot v Duham 

TOUR MATCH (one day) 

§ Worcester Worcestershire v Sri Lankans 


23- roUKTH CORkMLi. TEST MATCH 

* TRENT BRJOGE: ENGLAND yS AFRICA 
BRnAWflC ASSURANCE CHAMPKWEHP 

* EdgbaatorL Warradohro v Essex 

24- VOOAFONE CHALLENGE SERIES 

(tcurdays) 

* I slnwdar Lfljcestefshite v Sn Lankans 
TOUR MATCH (three (taysl 

*§ How: Sussex vAtstnita A 

25- AXA UFE LEAGUE 

Cotwyn Bey: Gtamorgan v Lancashire 
Chettonhan: Gtoucenetstere v Surrey 
Portsmouth: Hanpshim v Ncanghamshtre 


Lard'K MfddBaaK v YartaHre 
N o rthampton: N o rtt ia mt ^ on ah iiev Derbyahiw 
Taunton: Somareat v Durham 


28-NATWEST TROPHY, quortonttiah 


29-TOUR MATCH Tone day) 
r Worcester 


Essex or Wferceate- 


Cheknatoidar 
srtrs u South Afcfcans 

a South Africans If both counties 
: quarter-finals) 
toBRTTANMC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 
Derby: Derbyshire v Kent 
Southampton: Hampshire v Durham 
OH Trettoreb Lancashire v Lafcastarahire 
Trent Bridge: NotUnghamshtre ¥ 

Northamp io nsteB 

* The Owe Suney v Susam 

* Edgbeaton: Wtanrickahire v Gtamorgan 
W orc ester Worc e etarahfre v YbrlaNm ' 
TOUR MATCH (three days) . 

$ Taunton: Somerset v Australia A . 

NATWEST UNDER-19 MATCH 

I HarrcgetK England v PaWstan 

(Bret one-day imemaffionri) 

31-VODAFONE CHALLENGE SSUES 

* Cheknstard: Essot v Saudi Africans- (thee 




MdcfiBsax v Sri Lankan* (few days) 


AUGUST 


1-NATWEST UNDER-19 MATCH . 

9 Chesterto-Street: England w Pakistan 
(second one-day kHemelJonaQ 
2AXA UFE LEAGUE 
Darby: DerbyEtere v Kent, 

Southampton: Ha wpsMra v Durham 
Old Ttefiont: Lancashire v Lefcsstarahire 
Trent Bridge: NoUnghamahbe v 


W orcester Woroaaterehlm w Yortahire 
3AXA LIFE LEAGUE 
T The Owl: Surrey v Sussex 
T Edgtaston: WarMdcshlre v Gtamorgan 
NATWEST UNDGR-19 MATCH 
9 Cheater-taBtreet England v Pnktaan 
OWcd orehday internaAonef) 

&-WHTANN1C ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 


Canterbury: Kent v Ha m p Ehsu 
Okf Trattord: Lancashke v Gtoucesraahire 


TBC: kfekiesex v Warwickshire 

k y Durham 


Nrtfinghamshlre 
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TOUR MATCH (one day) 
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* HEADMGLEY!: ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA 

BOT-ANNIC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSWP 

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MXA UFE LEAGUE 
Owfa afonJ : Eeaex v Gtamorgan 

Ctotebury: Kant v Hamps^B 

Old Traltord: Laneashke vGfoucesterahira 


TBC: MUdtaaxv Warwickshire 
Eestbrnime : Sussex v Duham 
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Portsmouth: Hampshire vEseoc 
Taunton: Somerset v Northamptonshire 
Hove: Sussex « Middhum 
Hoaringtay: Yorkshire v Lancsatere 
NATWEST UN££R-19 MATCH (tour days). 
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THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28 1997 


: i RACING: FORSTEB LOOKS TO VETERAN CHASER FOR CHANGE OF FORTUNE 

Dublin Flyer faces testing time 

• ■- ■ . •• uir.uan(m 


By Chris McGrath 

NOBODY is beUer versed in 
the caprice of National Hum 
racing than Captain Tim For¬ 
ster. True, - his pessimistic 
instincts have been confound¬ 
ed by same of the most 
cherished chasers of recent 
years, none more so than 
Dublin Flyer. The past week, 
however, has seemed to vindi- 
cate the trainertrnost despon¬ 
dent expectations —'providing 
an unnerving context for the 
critical test faced by the same 
horse at Newbury today. 

It would take a return to 
Dublin Flyer's exhilarating 
best in the Jacky Upton 
Handicap Chase to redeem 
even a fraction of the agony 
Forster endured at Chepstow 
on Wednesday. Approaching ■ 
the second-last fence, Donjuan 
CoNonges was imposing his 
noble physique just as antici¬ 
pated by those who had made 


Nap: Raffles Rooster .* 
(3.00 Newbury) /-/ 

Raffles' Roosted an improve#: 
performer oh ibe Flat', this" 

■ sUnuner. ran particularly wdl 
behind the WeS-regarded Easy 
Fedin, at ' Worcester recently 
and.loots weD treated for his 
handicap fcurtBe debut. 

NR: Challenger Du Lac 
_ (2.30 Newbury) ' 

him hot favourite. But he 
crumpled on landing, and 
never rose again: 

The horse's broken back 
placed in humbling perspec¬ 
tive any irritation Forster felt 
when another favourite, Ed¬ 
mond, fell at the final hurdle 
earlier on the same card. It 
even belittled die chastening 
spectade'of Martha's Son, his 
Queen Mother Champion 
Chase winner, breaking down 
at Huntingdon the previous 
day. "I don't know what I’ve 
done wrong*an ashen Fbr- 
sTer said. He will be. fretful 
indeed at Newbury today, 
hoping that his expiation is 
complete. ; ’**•■* ' ■ 

For Dublin Rytir was sim¬ 
ply not -himself when reap¬ 
pearing ; *af his ; Wowed 
Cheltenham B days ago. Nev¬ 
er dominating his find as he 
can. he eventually completed 
the Murphy's Gold Cup tailed 






Dublin Flyer attempts to make amends for his disappointing Cheltenham performance at Newbury today 


off last Any such disappoint¬ 
ment today, when his rivals 
again include Challenger Du 
Luc, , will surely see Fbrster 
reviving .a suggestion that it 
could be time to draw stumps 
with Dublin Flyer. 

. John Sumner, his owner, 
said yesterday: '"‘We’ve no idea 
what was wrong. Brendan 
(PoweDJ said he felt unsound, 
but he came in sound enough, 

; while a couple of people said 
that he was carrying his tail in 
a funny way — though we'd 
looked at his. hade, on the 
Tuesday prior to the race. We 
don't want to keep him going if 




he’s just trailing in, so we must 
hope for the best tomorrow.” 

Suny Bay, the favourite, is a 
definite runner in tomorrow's 
Hennessy Gold Cup, Charlie 
Brooks having found the 
Newbury turf suitably yield¬ 
ing when walking the course 
yesterday. But his relief 
matches the dismay of sup¬ 
porters of Djeddah, Francois 
Doumen stressing that he is 
“far better on good ground". 

Another overseas challeng¬ 
er is Time For A Run. memo¬ 
rable winner of the Coral Cup 
at the 1994 Cheltenham Festi¬ 
val. Edward O'Grady, his 


trainer, acknowledges that 
this season will probably be 
the horse's “last hurrah" — 
but professes himself only 
moderately pleased by his 
prep-race over an inadequate 
distance at Naas. “One can 
only hope that held improve 
for the run and that the trip 
might help." O'Grady said. 

Time For A Run carries the 
colours of J P-McManus, who 
Is set for a stimulating week¬ 
end. Tomorrow's card also 
features the return to timber of 
Finnegan's Hollow, who has 
been living up to his sire's 
name (Bulldozer) over fences. 




1.00 RanwBtch 

1.30 Strong Chairman 
2.00 ’IGG/NS (nop) 


^mTO^pEHEFI! : ■ 

.: -v: SL3Q CaHfcoe Bay. 


I u£ tor T "‘T1MS3'660D1WK13 pFJ%GSri»*re’P'B^Kan| B Hrfn^r/.T i". Wed (7)' '88' 


5L0Q Magic Conibinatian 
330 Okt Rauvef 


Timekeeper's top rating: 1.30 YAHMI. 

GOING: GOOD (GOOD TO SOfT IN PLACES) - TPIt JACKPOT MEETttffi 

1.00 FRESHMANS JJVHtttF NOVICES HURDLE 

(3-Y-0: £3.912: 2m 110yd) (14 runners) 


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0 ) — tone ad tatance Uroetoepo :. spaed Bang. 


Taunton 


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. tfcum* wtatf CO — tan ad tatancs 


2.30 JACKY UPTON HANDICAP CHASE 

(£6.916:2m 41) (5 nmneis) 


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406 ASffCTO LAD >7 (W (B IWIwhI D HHms 10-12-W S Duack [5) 

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RMWATCH 44F Ms A Fatal M PlW. 10-12 


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402 2302-13 SALESCAVALEH 24 (&S) (SartigH Ftacmql DGwWto9-11-5 . RDanMiody [M 

403 FB1S4-2 CHALLBKEH DU LUC 13 (BJU&S) (D JOhneani M rw 7-10-13 APkfcCOy W 

4M 110025-1 CALLt50E BAY 20 (F.GS) (RVfttas) 0 SwwodHM - 4AUoC«nlY 187 

405 5K6-P2 STRONGffiKCE 17[COJ.tLS)|0rDSVklKfeky 10-1043 — COrDvnjw 172 

Long tamfcsp: Cafau Eaj 9-H Same Usdtme &-12 

BETTNe: 11-8 CtaBager Du Luc, 3-1 MfcnOq. 8-2 M*i Ftya 5-1 Bale C»*b. 10-1 Surang IMkcn 
195K 0QUEKSWSH9-I1-0MA fiizgaad (4-i| M Henderson 7 ran 

i,y_'n'r7A-'l Bales CavaSer betan a fciance 3rd or 6 Iq Vitang Fbgship in 
rOHM |?0GUS 8°* R * Bral te , p dwe <d E*eto (2m 11 lioyd. good lo Mfl). 

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112 THE NEGOTIATOR 25P (F SatnsJuv) M KnhxvEtts 10-12. -- ■ PnW 

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114 1YR0LHNDAJBS1 ITTFpSB«I*PB b*W 1 AOntaBtaiUW WHcMad . - 

BETTING: 54 NmaSdl 9-4 KRxldB LM. 10-1 Stara Cwk, UaadL 12-1 Bonzoo, 16-1 teM. Jaa. ABdla 

Mr. R-1 b#»s. 

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Wurceda (2m. sol) Aspecto Lad 461 6ft ol 8 to Supply And 
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Rtoffl QuUdd up In novice hunJkt al Hsetord (2m 1L goodta m 6] H8dM.ifa sbrpne mataiDn 
F« lor D Itoriev. sold 24fl00qns al Doncaster Angus! Sates JWb. tar madw a 1m oq Hs «dim 
trailed br A Stewart Juicfion OHjr. Forty Uner col, ifaWmfiw te lhree wtann ta ta US. 
including a grade 1 tamer Only one run on FhL tan toted oil in Sandmm maiden. KBride Lad 
igj 3rd w lo to The Frencli Fine in nwte tsnUe a Chettentom [2m 11W, good). Maral, tar 
havUanei over Ittm on RaL Rahwalch. WV usriul n« 1Hm+ on FW when Wned &»4 
Dunfep^id SO.OOOgns fedrrwoti RegpieBtek.agmolabiiftym9ueenmsonFttwhenOaned 
by L Omani. Its MomiMcr. some JDWjr a 1m ai F«. 

Twin Tme. modesl mDa on Flat 

HLSFUDE LAD can {Hd Cheltenham experience to good use - 


tea! The Last FBng 61 in 7-anief handicap chase a unmeter 12m 51, soffl Strung Uaddne 1WI 
aid ol 3 to Soper Tadics In leraUcap chase a Newbury (2m 41. good lo 6rm). 

CALUSOE BAY can Bte adtantage d tentenl male Ctaltenger Da Lac tec dangw 

3.00 SHOPPING ARCADE CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS NOVICES HANDICAP 
HURDLE (£2,758. 2m 51) (IQ nmneis) 


501 21D443- 

502 35-2 

'503 B30- 

504 0002-31 

505 £54-105 

bte 0O0C0- 

507 4001-65 

506 0U55 

509 DPS2S-4 

510 43MW 


1.30 OXFORDSHIRE NOVICES CHASE (£4,601. 3m) (4 omars) ^ 


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IBM HATCHAM BOY 6-11-3 A Magnto IB-U DNWtaw 8 w 

... gsm Yalrtatea!StrongCtehnsif71bbeta£*) 1iin &4tw» runice 
pm II. BMdltacMto 41 W m.8 to 
fflVygjj ui^ie Outlaw in nowce dasa at mowta (3tn. ( wriw&ly 

471 Hh nJ 7 to Mr Moriartv In handicap hunfle d Unmeter (2m fl TIQytf. g ood). Tnpte WRchtop 
hfifai a dfcfaia 4flTo(6 to Bsm* Nal To in no m chMd JtenptoBjto flood to soflj! 

STRONG CHAJRMWl .is weighted to rewree CWIertam term wdh Yahml 

2.00 BOBBY NDCW BIRTHDAY HANDICAP HURDLE 

(£5,493: 2m 110yd) (9 runners) 

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In 3-n«*ioJ|^^^ l ^^?^n^r^lSSi^arS>nBo5™ t l Ml 4th ol 5 lo HigWy 

fasSsafifttsp*?®* 

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BidforRaceTech 

Members of the- Racecourse 
Association yesterday voted in 
favour of a proposal to take 
over ownership of RaeeTech 
from the British Horseraraig 
Board (BH B). The RCA’s offer 
will be considered at a BrtB 
board meeting a week today. 


-12-0 J Merterm* (10) 
i- 11 -fl . . R Thotann 102 

4-10-7 . L Aspal 100 

rfieq SapUeUfadm 114 

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_G Hoorn 101 

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MW - J GflMsMJ (5) OS 

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Court Item. 12-1 Brazos FSB. 14-1 dhen 

199& ALLOW 5-10-16 0 J foma* B-11 B Uewnyii 13 ran 

Coxl Master SMI 3rd at 12 to 1* PUytull in tamfiOB chase a 
FOCUS 7 Exaer(2m311lD»±Bnntn-. prewimsly ®14th ol 15 to lay h Ofl in 
j handiQp chase al Worcester (2m fl itOjnt. gotef to sotl Fbltbs 

Rooster 91 2nd ol 22 to Easy FeeUn in nones bunts al Worcester (2m 41. good) Mane 
Combto^kxi 411 lift ol 20 to Fort Romeu In novice hurdle al Leicester (3m. rood to cab) 
nrevicmsV 813rd of 10 to Thee Farthings n maiden hurdle aiLtogCald (2m 110yd. sen) WdshSft 
oni tamed Square 71 m 10-ruraw nonce handicap hudle a Heietord (2m 3 110yd good), 
previously 101 3rd ol 12 lo Relative China In novice hamfaap hurdle at Sandoan (2m El rood) 
Ssii®y 161 Sh d ID to Drcjtog in novice turfle J Taurton Ctin 110yd. good) Dannicus Ml IBb 
0114 to Nreliian Singer in ramra hareicap chase X Taunton (2m MOyd. good to sot). Brassis Hffl 
281 SSi oi 8 to Punkah in novice hurdle al AmdI On 110yd. good): previously 75) Sh oM2 to 
Vtiaman n nowe lurdte al Chepslore 12m 41 iiQyd. good) mil) Qamay (41b belter nil) 10 7 Ul 
F reeSne Frrtane 131 5th ol 9 to Wise King m novice handcap hunfle al Nnbuy 12m TIDyd. 
goodV, previously 13 5di ol 10 to Maid Fw Athreteure in nmee hunfle al StaBord (2m H 110yd. 
good) Stemv Sesston 401 last ol 4 Id Torch Vert in novice hara&ao hunfle ai Cheltenham (3m 3. 


RAFFLES. ROOSTER has good chance on pgmising Wor cester reappearance _ 

3.30 SONNUUS NOVICES HURDLE (£3.649. 3m 110yd) (8 runners) 

GDI - 15 TOE RJLL MONTY 3) (G) fftfly Patnerstnp) C Smote 5-11-5 G BraSey ISQ 

602 5 DUTCH 11 ittaytar Pamnhpl C Enrita 5-ll-d .... Ur S Dnratfi (5) 

m - frSffl fHTRfWa K 72 (M) (M fiaberSJ M J Setae 511-C_ P Hetar pi 100 

604 7253-02 JET BOVS 16 (<M Sehstey Company Lid) Mrs J Ptfraai 7-114) R Fanrzd 10G 

605 OU) ROUVa SSf (lira R CmnJfl 0 Uuuay SmA 6-11-0 .. D Gtfafaer 

6 DB V0P/2- RBI LEADER 2» fflk* fWwoWp) T Gmga 7-118 .. R Johnsn 104 

£07 wwrs 7KE BUZ? (Lady Lirvs WKiwl N 6-11-C UAFtepeafel 

606 QfP&- RED revet 267 lUr. J Uetmmo) C tout 6-10-9 .. . R Thornton (3) B0 
' flETTWR: W Qd fowl 4-1 EspBtaa N. M The Fid Utay. Jd Bays, 5-1 Wfc« The Bua ID -1 nters. 

1598: YAHM 6 - 11-0 i Dtoome (5-2) J (tal 16 tap 

-rnniT r-ffni .n l The Fut Monty All 5ft ol II to Does m novice hunfle a 
ffiORM rQSUS' Wioeafllw (2m. gond); prwttuslj heal Himca* Jane en ai 15- 
runner ikmcq hurtfle at Huntingdon (2m 11IM. good). Mch Effl 
tad oi 5 lo Fill The Bd) in novice hunfle at Ptompton{2rti II, an) Esperanza IV tan Pamatyn a in 
8-fttner imto hurdle alTowcestor (3m, good). Jet Boys 412nd mi2 to Ftoiatne Chance in novice 
handicap hunfle ai Sandom 0o 61. good) Old Rouvet anal stayer on the HaL beaten neck in 
Qgeailisondte SaJies 3 Royal Ascoi. RW Leartef Til 2nd oi 12 to Friendship m novice huritea 
Wrulsffl (2m 61.116yd, good). Red RNw 361 66) ol 9 to Korwstta Queen in mfea hunfle d 
ToMSSter (2m 51. wfl). 

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155 dm IthcSel I.QtaandgvfT JMuphy. 
2-1 tnvj. 2. Northern Druns (9-2). 3. Wefton 
Animal (9-1) JO ten. NR Perfect PaL Vil. 
IS P Evans Tale: 52.00. E12D. II ia 
1270 DF £550 7raC33.10 CSP SM0B8. 
TnCBSt £6021 

155 (3 m 11 hdci l. (Ms Of Maak: lA P 
McCoy. 2^ lav). 2. Digital Optan (50-11 3. 
Payaso (20-1 1 12 real 3< L r* MIApe Tow 
El 3ft El 10. £4 90. £3 40 DF- £29LX) Tno 
EE290 CSF SA73£. 

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11-2). 2. Bounds Lie Fun n 1-2). 3. Matnrti 
Rwwa tiO-i) TOureday NWX 9-4 lav 14 
ran. 21. VI J Ota Tore- £600: £2 JO. £2 70. 
£290 DF- £13 00. Tno £M10 CSF. 
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25-1), 2, Fresh Ftufl Daly riS-2). 3. Suong 
Choice (10-1). SertrutaJy 2-1 lav. 13 rah 
I’-L 2'*L B Millrran Tow £3340: £390. 
£1.70. £4 10 DF- £35590 Tna rw son 
CSF Cl S3 80 

325 (3m tfi) 1 Equity Player IC Uewoltyrv 
11-1J-. 2 Mammy's Ctr;<e (2-1 lav). 3. 
Space Cappa i20-ll. B ten. NR Sieepw 
Jask VI. shhd.fi Cures Tow CIS.00 
£3 40. £130. £5 50 DF £26 40 Tno 
£69 10. CSF £3234. Tncasi £409 30 
3.56 (2m 3! HOxI ncSe) 1. Frontar Rtan lO 
Pears, 4-lj. 2 (he Minder (11-1). 3. Game 
Ofcmma (10-(i Sam Racfcen 6-41& flran 
31. SI Miss L SiddaJ Tos £3 50 LUO. 
£260. £340. DF £4630 CSF £45 50 
Trieasr £29243 

Jackpot not won (pool ert £16.507.30 
carried torwatp to Nawbury today). 
Placopot £20520 Quadpot £18150. 

Uttoxeter 

Gomg: gaod. good n» son /n peaces 
12*5 f2m hdlei 1 . Virtuoso (R Dunwoody. 
7-2). £. Kingdom Emprrw /£>■ it. 3, Lerrfak 
(11-4| Lotea 5-2 lair. 16 larv 4( 251 C Marw. 
Tow £4 BO. £1 80. C210 £1 40 DF -£10 60 
Tno £730 CSF- £3223 
7.15 i2m 41 chj!. Spring Gate tJ JfcCanhy. 
5-2 tavi. 2. Jynqam Jshnny 15-1] 3. Sal EN 
The Siam d5-2i 6 ran Ha. lu O 
Sherwood. To» £3 40. Cl 7D. £220 DF. 
CIO40 CSF-E1403 

1.45 ( 2 m tnSei 1 . Northern Nation IM A 
Rogaata 20-1):2'3arbf«n5&urB I9-U.3. 
Evezio Ruro i4-i). Va Uta 10-11 tov 11 ran 

King Curan !#. 6L W Clay Tote. 
£1590. C240. Cl 70. £210 DF. £60 00 
Tno £115 90 CSF £17741 Tncaa 
£809 90 

21512m 71 drtl. Strain Royal FM Biennan. 
9-4 p-tav). 2 ffeawy Sarrien (3-4 ]Ma»l. 3. 
General Pon» 18 -I 1 5 ran Si. "I O 
Brennon To®- £3.10: £160. £1 10 DF 
£220 CSF: £7S7 

245 (2mhdte) T. Farfadw V(CMaude. 4-ir. 
2 Loni HchfieU r7-T) 3. DnutKe Star [14-11 
Maraflnga (4m) 5-4 Sw. 13 ran 1*1. S M 
Poe Tote- £620. £21C. £210. £320 DF 
£33 60 Tio £55£0 CSr. £30 01 
115 (2m ch) 1. Listen Timmy IS Wynne. 2-7 
tavi. 2 Tepno Gota (7-Z,. 3. Ama trwwinn 
116-1) 4 ran ia 24i s awnshaw Twe- 
£130. DF’ £1.50 CSF.Cl 72. 

3.45 Cm hdle) 1. Saim Ciel [A Magitee. 15-3 
tavi 2. Diego (J5-2). 3 Neetaood Pew* 
140-1) 8 ran. Cl. 3) F Jordan Tree £2 7ft 
£1.10.11 50 £ 6 Kl DF £5 80 CSF 05 75 

Tncast £385^5 

Placepoc £7290. Quadpot El 5 50. 



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! FULL RESULTS 5E RVJCE _To^ 


□ Space Trucker, the Irish-trained Champion Hurdle third 
who unsealed Jamie Osborne on his chasing debut at 
Cheltenham earlier this month, returns (o action in Britain on 
Saturday. His trainer, Jessica Harrington, has a choice of 
novice chases at either Haythck or Warwick for the six-year-oW 
and will make a derision, based on the ground, early today. 


« Carlisle 

Going: good 

TOO (2m i: fatal 1. Irish WWcard (£ 
Calaghan. 13-2i: 2. Ssyzonroswa f&4 lavf. 
_ 3. Run For Thu IAH (6-1) 13 ran NR Spring 

® loaded. 121 3i J Howard JoWson T«.j- 
> £750. £2 40. £190. £220 DF: £22 40. Tno. 

tt E3d50 CSF £20 BS TncaS: £8936. 
to 1.3512m4fn0¥dtf»'»l Ja/m(BGranan. 
* 33-lj; 2. Shanavogfi 12-1 lav/. 5. Crt'C 

ID Granting 12ran 41.71 PSeaumort Tore. 
Si £5030: £820. £1SQ. £210 DF £248 00. 
d T«v E212JSD CSF £90 2C> 

2.05 On at 110yd Mtei 1. Ardenl Scow 
(Hcftard Guest. 14-ij: 2. .touood (50-11. 
Juctiopus Narrari ))4-li No Fina Man 
_ lO-ii lar. 15 ran. 3t. al Mra S Smitfi Tote 
£1020; ££20. £530. £390 DF £18240 
Tno-£288 70 CSF £514 72. 

Z3S (3m cty 1. Son OJ Iris iP Nun b- J). 2. 
Bauer Timas Ahead L13-1V 3. Ccowdate 
Une {11-4 Iff/I- 10 car. N>, 61 Mrs M 
ftewioy Ttflo. £4 10: £210. £3.50. £1 90. 
OP- £33 10 Trier ££640 CSF; £56X12. 
Tneax £181 95. 

3JB On it hdfe| 1. Oul On A Pramoo (R 
Supple. 10-11 tovr. 2. Tetahafli (5-ij. 3. 
J AooBa'z Daucnasr (fC-t| 5 ran ill <ff L 
a Liawo To*o: £2.04 £110. £2.40 DF- 
® E4.1G CSF E550 

It 3^(^4!11(^f49e)1.BoidCto33iclMr 
„ C Storey. 10-lj. 2. Reach The Cfautfc (7-11. 
r * 3.Paia»OlG£«S(7-2(a*) 12 ran. II. Hi J 
if Adam True. £17 40. £5 50. £320. £250, 
j DF £7440. Tno £3640. CSF: £7159. 
a Tncasi £271.09. 

PtocapoC £314 m Quadpot CSfiXSO 


SPORT 47 


BANGOR 


while Israbraq defends his 
status as Champion Hurdle 
favourite at Fairyhouse on 
Sunday. 

The reigning champion. 
Make A Stand, last season 
used the springboard of the 
Tote Gold Trophy at New- 
bury. It will again be subject to 
intense scrutiny in the Festival 
build-up. after the sponsor’s 
announcement yesterday that 
£25,000 has been pumped into 
two "stepping stones" — the 
Tote Lanzarote Hurdle at 
Kempton on January 24 and a 
Tote Gold Trophy Trial at Ayr 
the following week. 


YESTERDAY’S 
RESULTS 


THUNDERER 

1.20 Once More For Luck, 1.50 Forest Ivory. 230 
Country Minstrel. 2.50 Even Blue. 3.20 The Bird 
O'OormeK. 3.SO Kaladrass. 


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CHASE (?3i6E Sm 110yd) (ft 

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LINGFiELD PARK 

THUNDERER 

12.10 Mustang. 12.40 Lift The Offer. 1.10 Fast 
Tempo. 1.40 Father Dan. 2.10 La Petite Fusee. 2.40 
Wilchfinder. 3,10 Casino Ace. 3.40 Manful. 


GOING- STANDARD SIS 

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48 SPORT 

All Blacks 
see red at 
accusations 
by Ackford 
of cheating 

By Mark Solster 

THERE was no denying New 
Zealand's anger yesterday at accu- 
sarions that the All Blacks, while a 
superb team, were also superb 
cheats. John Hart, their coach, was 
incensed by allegations rhar his 
side deliberately broke the law 
during the first Test against Eng¬ 
land at Old Trafford. 

Hart dismissed comments by 
Paul Ackford. the Former England 
international, as contemptuous. 
Ackford. in effect, said yesterday 
that New Zealand had got cheating 
down to a fine art and that “cheats 
prospered" in Manchester through 
die use of “cynical, illegal" tactics. 
He claimed that New Zealand's 
willingness to concede successive 
penalties during the first half to 
prevent a try “was as intentional as 
it was skilful". 

"1 am extremely disappointed." 
Hart said. "This Ail Black side has 
anained what it has attained by 
playing the game the right way." 

Mike Banks, the manager, said: 
"In the two years I have worked , 
with John, at no stage has he 1 
expounded the theory that the All 
Blacks should transgress the laws.” 

Han said New Zealand had 
sufficient confidence in their defen¬ 
sive qualities. “We do not go out to , 
kill the ball, we go oui to try to 
avoid penalties." he said. “There 
are going to be times when a side | 
goes over, but not intentionally. 
You are driving with force and you 
end up over the ball. We do not go 
out to stop the game intentionally. 
To be called cheats is a really sad 
day and is right out of place with 
what we are trying to achieve." 

Returning to more routine mat¬ 
ters. Hart confirmed that Zinzan 
Brooke, their one slight injury 
doubt, would be fit to face Wales at 
Wembley tomorrow. 

Kevin Bowring, the Wales coach, 
was reluctant to be drawn into the 
furore, but said that gamesman¬ 
ship was part of professional sport 
and that New Zealand “were adept 
at exploiting that area". 

He also took time to talk to 
Wayne Erickson, the match referee 
tomorrow. 

Bowring last night invited Simon 
Weston, the former Welsh Guards¬ 
man, to talk to the squad at their’ 
Buckinghamshire hold. Weston 
was badly injured during the 
Faiklands War and his experiences 
and his ability to triumph over 
adversity are attributes from which 
Bowring hopes and expects his 
team to draw strength tomorrow. 





RUGBY UNION: SOUTH AFRICA DETERMINED TO REGISTER CLEAN SWEEP 

England call up Greenstock 

CRAIG PREKTIS/ALUSPOH 


By David Hands 

RUGBY CORRESPONDENT 

SOUTH AFRICA officials make no 
bones about their ambition for the 
final phase of their international 
season. To make up for disappoint¬ 
ments earlier this year, they aim to 
win all five of their matches in 
Europe. Already three victories are 
in the bag, against France and 
Italy, and England at Twickenham 
tomorrow represent the fourth 
hurdle. 

“If tiie national side is winning, 
every other aspect of our rugby is 
strengthened," Jake White, their 
technical assistant, said. “Nick 
Malletr [the coach] hasn't just taken 
15 players and put them on the 
field, he is selling the whole game 
throughout the country but dev¬ 
elopment is determined by the 
"amount of games you win. It's 
critical we go home with five out of 
five." 

While. 33, will become manager 
of coaching for Gauteng when the 
tour ends against Scotland on 
December 6, but he takes great 
satisfaction at the advance of 
players such as Krynauw Otto, 
who previously had been under¬ 
rated. Otto, the Northern Trans¬ 
vaal lock, has spent much of his 
Springbok career as back-up but 
has won selection alongside the 
experienced Mark Andrews on 
merit during the visit to France. 

“One of the differences between 
Saturdays teams is the ability to 
score tries," White observed. “Nick 
Mallett has a passion for scoring 
tries." South Africa scored nine 
against Italy and 12 in the two 
internationals with France; seven 
of those 21 have come from Pieter 
Rossouw. the Western Province 
wing, whose total now is ten from 
nine appearances. 

The other aspecr relevant to the 
game tomorrow is the success of 
the British Isles in South Africa last 
summer. This is the nearest South 
Africa will come to playing a 
“return" match: eight members of 
England's XV were Lions and that 
has added zest to South Africa's 
preparations even if Mallett 
described this as a “new phase" 
after distinctly mixed results dur¬ 
ing eight internationals under the 
old management earlier this year. 

England, he has been telling his 
team, are the true grand-slam side. 
“They have been the best five 
nations' side for the last five years," 
he said. 

“For me. they are the real grand- 
slam winners, not France. England 
should never have lost the decider 
last season and we have to remem¬ 
ber that last week in Paris [when 
South Africa won 52-101 both the 
weather and the French were in our 
favour — the first because it was 
sympathetic to our attacking style 







Greenstock. capped three times, has forced his way into the team with some robust performances 


and the second because France 
played so poorly. 

“England will nor be the same. 
They played with great commit¬ 
ment and passion against New 
Zealand and we may nave to play 
differently to win. We would like to 
play flamboyantly and score tries 
out if the defence is good, we will 
have to grind out a win." 

England made four changes of 
personnel from the XV that lost 25^ 
to the All Blacks and added a fifth 
yesterday when Phil de Glanville 
withdrew because of damaged 
ankle ligaments. His replacement 
in the centre. Nick Greenstock, will 
be winning his fourth cap and joins 


John Bentley, Darren Garforth and 
Daiuiy Grewoock in playing his 
first international at Twickenham. 

“Phil was playing extremely well 
and it is unfortunate he will not 
have the opportunity to capitalise 
on his good form,” Lawrence 
Dallaglio, the captain, said. “But 
one of the benefits we have is that 
English rugby is creating an ex¬ 
tremely competitive environment 
People are coming in and those left 
out are dying to get back. Nick 
Greenstock has forced his way in 
with some robust performances 
and he will look to improve his 
game at the higher leveL" 

Greenstock, 24 earlier this 


month, won his first three caps in 
Argentina and against Australia in 
Sydney last July, a match where he 
felt his display might have war¬ 
ranted inclusion in England’s ini¬ 
tial squad this season. He played 
alongside Matt Allen, of North¬ 
ampton. against the All Blacks for 
Emerging England at Hudders¬ 
field and for the English Rugby 
Partnership XV in Bristol, the pair 
forming a particularly effective 
partnership in the latter game. 

Mike Catt, who kicked so poorly 
against New Zealand at Old 
Trafford will be the first-choice 
goalkicker, with Matt Dawson, as 
back-up. 


THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEM BER 281997 

Howley ready for 
belated chance 
on greatest stage 

Mark Souster on the W ales scrum half 
Wn t" meet <win towers of his position 


O ne of the saddest sights 
in rugby this year was 
that of Robert Howley 
trudging off the field in Durban 
in June dutdung a dislocated 
shoulder. The injury forced him 
to miss the three international 
matches against South Africa 
and. at the time, appeared to 
have dealt a serious blow to the 
British Isles" chances of beating 
(he Springboks. On a personal 
level, it also denied him- the 
opportunity of faring Joost van 
der Westhirizen. 

What happened in South Afri¬ 
ca is stiD a sore print even if the 
shoulder is not but another day 
brings another challenge and 

tomorrow >t is Justin Marshall, 
the New Zealand captain, who 
will be Honey’s opponent 
Their confronta¬ 
tion will be one of 
several fascinating 
personal duels 
within the rnterna- 
tionaL Depending 
on who you listen, 
to, both men — . 
together with Van 
der Westhuizen — 
are' rivals for the 
accolade of the 
world's best scrum 
halt 

Having con¬ 
firmed his reha- . 
bilitation as a 
replacement *Plavil 

against Tonga, J . 

Howley^ 27.' will ' 
win his eighteenth 
cap on the wide- WOll*! 

open spaces of 
Wembley. ™ f 

“Haying New _ 

Zealand won’t T.irm 

make up for the 
sadness of the Li¬ 
ons tour, but it is a chance to 
meet the best side in the world 
and to compete against Mar¬ 
shall," Howley said. “New Zea¬ 
land are a great side. They 
probably have to play below par 
if we are going to brat them but 
our spirit is great It wQl be a 
terrific challenge. 

“It is not often yon get the 
chance to play on the Wembley 
turf. It doesn't matter that we are 
not in Cardiff. There will be 
20,000 more su pp o rt er s at Wem- 
Wey. The atmosphere will be 



‘Playing New 
Zealand 
won’t make 
up for the 
Lions toor* 


incredible. It is gomg to be am . . aad B aitempts. 


unbelievable day,” "J® 

will be faring New Zealand for 
the first time. said. _. 

There is a discermbk senseot 
opt imism about Wales at foe 
moment buoyed by five 
successive victories and foe be¬ 
lief that, after two yws. the 
of Kevin Bowing, 
the coach, is beginning to bear 
fruit They have also d rawn 
encouragement from foe map- 
ner m which England and me 
Fugfish Rugby Partnership XV 
confronted foe challenge of the 
All Blacks head on. 

. “We air going to attack. Welsh 
sides of rid may have gone oat 
trying just to keep the score 
down. We have got respect for 
them but we have to keep the 
tempo of foe game as high as we 
can for as tong as 
we We will 
take the challenge 
to New Zealand. 

“It is no good 
just accepting de¬ 
feat and defending 
for 80 minutes. 
Rn gfawd showed 
that they are only 
human beings. We 
will have to be at 
foe top of our 
- game to beat them 
but we Intend to 
attack foe space 

and the areas 

y iJanr where we think 

>there are slight 

weaknesses. With 
UIU the back line we 

n «ke have it looks a 

™ great prospect If 

r thp our front five can 

L give us some ball 

franr* and a platform to 

weak off we can 
come out with a bit 
more respect than we have done 
in recent years." 

Howtey’k speed off the mark, 
eye far a gap and try-scoring 
ability shook! ensure that the 
New Zealand back row have 
their hands ML He acpred the 
final Hi * r m f i ofMri try for Wales 
at the National Stadium against 
England in Mavdi and his 
return from the miseries of 
Sooth Africa wiH be complete if 
he can conjure another one to 
help Wales to their first victory 
over New Zealand in 44 years 


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round: Group C: DanmorK 64 England 72 
(Jn Copeitiagan). 

NATKWALABSOOATION faBA); Boson 
103 Los Angetaa Laltera 118; Toronto 104 
Adorda 109 (aocond OT); PModalpNa 89 
Ctevotand Mnnasota 90 Portland 96: 
CWandO 60 Marrd 84; MVwmAae 101 
Vancouver 82; Son Antonio 94 Waaidngton 
aa Rwanbr Til New Jersey 99; Los 
Angaiac Clppait 99 Sscnvrwnto 97. 


Third Test match 
Australia v New Zealand 

HOBART (tear day at Ovb; AuabaSa won 
toss)- AustraSa ha« socrad 39 far no wkAaf 
agama New Zealand 

AUSTRALIA: Fire* Inrtnga 

MT G EBott notout__20 

*U A Taylor tw out.. _..1B 

Baras (to 1)__ 1 

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G S Btomtt. M E Waugh. S R Waugh, B T- 
Pbnttig. tl A Healy. P B Fteritel. s KWarns. 
M S Kasprowiez and S H Cook to baL 
BOWUNG: DauH 5-2-14-0; O'Connor 7-2- 
15-0; Caims 30-9-0. 

NEW ZEALAND: M J Home. S A Young, 
TACParore, *SPRermaBGTwose.CD 
McMSan, N J AsUe, C L cafens, OLVenori. 
S B Dou*. 5 B CrCormor. 

Umpires: S Davis (Austrola) and 
R B Tffln (ZimtutMO). 

Second Test match 

India v Sri Lanka 

NABFUfi (second day of Ototf- Mb have 
scared 401 for »* wtefats agaast Sri 
Lanka 

INDIA: Fbst bmga 
tN R Mongta c MutaBharan 

b Pustariturnna_11 

N S Sdhu c Atapfatu b Vaas_79 

R S frautd c Ampaai b Vans-02 

*S R TenduOur b Puohpfihumara_15 

M Azbaruddkn kxv b PtAripokumaro._82 

S C Ganguly not oat_ J. --67 

AKurtoie nert otf.-_ _42 

Estres (bfl. to 11. w3. nb 11)- ^33 

Total (5 nekta}.—_401 

J Srinath. R K Cheunan, A P KuuvSa and 
N M Kukani to baL 

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-15, 2-1SZ. 3-182. 
4472.5-303 

BOWUNG: Vaas 26^65-2: Pustipakumaia 
2S-38&3: Sflva 286-81-0; MuraKiaran 
41-8-118-0 Ranatonoa 1-TWM); Jayasuriya 
8^-180: Atapattu 1*4-0. 


SRI LAIWA: S T Jayssuriya. M S Ataeattu. 
R S Wftarwm, P A da Sta. -Ate? 
farm H P TBatoabift n. K L da SBva. WP 
U Jc Vaas. Mbfarahhawi. K RPuahpah- 
umara, KJSWa. 

Umpire^! C J Mtehiev (Sou#) Africa) 

- and V K Rarrasenmy (hvSa). 

TOUR HATCH An dw oMourt' Perth; 
South Afnrarei 313-5 (GKiratan 141 not ouL 
S M Pollock 78 not aid] v Western Austrata 
SHEFFIELD SWLD (drat day of .tow): 
Matoouma: South Australia 256-5 (D 
Ftonetaid 81. J □ Stddons 60) v Victoria. 
ftSbane: Tasmania 307^ (D J Mash 82 
nofouflvQuea n a fa nd. 

SUPERSPOHT SERES ftbrst day ol tour): 
Kkntoartay: 9ordar27a (VC Orates 9® G A 
Roe 4-35) v GriquatoRd West. 


FOOTBALL 


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Group CtBanaatona 1 NesecasrieO. Group 
£ BesHaas 0 Bayern Mu*Ji i #K 
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Mdctesbrough 0 Notangfw Forest 0. 
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SPORT 49 


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By Russell Kempson 


SWITZERLAND is renowned 
for hs secret , bank accounts 
and utter discretion in matters 
of finance. .Not so Christian 
Gross, the country's most 
famous recent export, the new¬ 
ly appointed head coach of 
Tottenham Hotspur. Gross, 
formerly of Grasshopper Zu¬ 
rich, has revealed that he will 
be paid a minimum of 
£450,000 a-year as he tries to 
rescue Tottenham tram the FA 
Carling Premi ership mire. 

Gross, 43, signed an 1S- 
month contract at White Hart 
Lane eight days ago, shortly 
after Gory Francis resigned. 
Although reluctant to share 
his innermost thoughts with 
the English media, he dis¬ 
cussed his new deal with 
Tages-Anzeiger, the Swiss dai¬ 
ly newspaper, this week. 

“AH told, £11 be earning 
more than SwFr 1 million 
(about £450,000) a season.” he ' 
aid: “After tax. it will be a 
little less than SwFr 1 million, 
but 1 will receive bonuses on 
top of the basic salary.” Pre¬ 
sumably, he will be suitably 
rewarded if he guides Totten¬ 
ham away from relegation. 

Gross said that he would 
have declined the offer of Alan 
Sugar, the Tottenham chair¬ 
man. had Grasshopper not 
lost to PC Croatia Zagreb in 
the Uefa Cup and that lie was 
aware he was not the first 
choice for the job. Sugar had 
preferred Ottxnar Hitzfdd. the 
former Borussia Dortmund . 
coach who is. now general. 
manager at the . Bundesliga 
dub. . " 

“If wc had bekten Zagreb 
and remained in . Europe, the 
deal that brought me to Tot¬ 
tenham would not have came 
about” Gross said. “Ottmar 
was offered the chance before 
me, but he turned it down and 
pur in a very good reference 
for me. 

“I’ve had approaches from 
foreign dubs before — from 
Cefeg^fl o nasia- 


gladbach and 
but at;the time:"jp didn’t 
ready to join them. The mo- . 
ment Spurs came in for me. 1 , 
felt this was where I wanted to 
moved quickly 

then on.' 


Ron Atkinson, the new Shef- 
field_ Wednesday manager, is 
forking abroad as he attempts 
Jo strengthen his squad. Ar¬ 
ison was in Zagreb on 
Tuesday night where he 
w *tched Igor Cvitanovic. die 
Croatia Zagreb striker, play in 
the 1-1 draw against Adfitico 
Madrid, in their Uefa Cup 
third round, first-leg match. 

Cvnanovic. 26. has been the 
leading goals corer in the Cro¬ 
atian league for the past three 
Bryan Robson, the 
Middlesbrough manager, 
tned to sign him two years 
ago. but Cvitanovic could not 
obtain a work permit If 
-Atkinson pursues his interest 
he feces competition from 
Borussia Dortmund, Real 
Soctedad, who have made an 
offer of £3 million, and 
Werder Bremen. 

Atkinson may enjoy more 
fruitful negotiations with Cov¬ 
entry city for David Burrows, 
the defender. Burrows, who 
joined Coventry, then under 
Atkinson, from Everton. could 
move to Hfllsbonoughin ex¬ 
change for Mark P&nbridge, 
the Wales and Wednesday 
midfield player, plus a small 
cash adjustment in Coventry's 
favour. 

Wimbledon’s proposed 
move to Dublin has again 
been rejected by the Football 
Association of Ireland (FAI). 
Bernard O’Byrne, the FAI 
chief executive, said yesterday; 
“We have received a fax from 
Sam Hammam [the Wimble¬ 
don managing director) in the 
past six months, which re¬ 
quested a meeting and we 
politely replied that there was 
no agenda in talk about 

“We have the backing of 
every football authority and 
have taken legal advice at foe 
highest level. The Whnbledon 
people can go to the European 
Commission or whoever they 
like. Very amply, we will not 

allow this to happen.” _ 

■ Da v id Curtolo. - a m ndfirid-j 
Villa 


Fast forward Davies seeks more reruns 


Nick Szgeganjk 
meets a young 


RUSSELL SACH 


player making 


a striking impact 
on the Premiership 


W hen Kevin Da¬ 
vies turned Phi¬ 
lippe Albert, 
strolled past 
Darren Peacock and knocked 
the ball nonchalantly beyond 
the advancing Shaka Htsfop 
with tiie outside of his right 
foot after only five minutes of 
Southampton's match at St 
James* Park on Saturday; it 
could have been the goal of 
his career. 

But for Davies, 20, in his 
first season in the FA Carling 
Premiership, it was not even 
his best of the month. That 
came against Everton in a 
(devised game at Goodison 
Bark — or so he readied. “J 
haven’t watched Match of the 
Day since I’ve played here,” 
Davies said. “My brother and 
mother tape it, but I've not 
seen the goal at Newcastle 
and only caught a glimpse of 
the one at Evertort. It doesn't 
affect me.” 

It is to be hoped that the 
tapes are well Looked after, 
for there arc several memora¬ 
ble strikes among his ten 
goals for Southampton — not 
a bad return for a player who 
scored only seven forChester- 
fidd last season. 

He made his Chesterfidd 
debut at 16. after being reject¬ 
ed by Sheffield United, the 
club he supported, and had 
played more than 100 League 
games when .'Graeme 
Souness, then the manager of 
Southampton, signed him in 
June. Souness departed ten 
days later, to be replaced by 
David Jones, but Davies saw 
a chance to start on an equal 
footing with established play¬ 
ers. 

Nevertheless, the early part 
of the season was uncomfort- 



After initially suffering from homesickness, Davies is now happy and settled in the Southampton dressing-room 


able for both the new men, 
even wbfei Davies's first goal 
for Southampton, against 
Crystal Palace, brought Jones 
his first win as a Premiership 
manager: Davies, who comes 


from a dosdy knit family, 
lifted to suffering from an 


admitted to suttering i 
early bout of homesickness. 
“I was on the bench and 
going home to a hotel an my 
own after framing, but I sat 
down with the manager and 
everything has worked out 
fine.” 


Dasies has also settled info 
the team, Southampton's up¬ 
turn in form coinciding with 
him claiming a regular spot 
He may not watch himself on 
television, but he has begun 
to attract die attention of a 
wider public. 

Davies, who has appeared 
as a substitute for foe Eng¬ 
land under-21 team, fat dear 
aims and was not surprised to 
find himself in foe first 
“When I signed. I saw there 
was a chance to break into a 


team with a smaO squad.” he 
said. “I rise to a challenge. I 
love going out and facing 
Liverpool or Everton but I've 
only scored once in any 
match. I'm scoring goals, but 
1 could score more.” 

Dairies and Terry Cooper, 
foe Southampton assistant 
manager under both Souness 
and Jones, use the same 
words to describe his effect on 
defenders, “a handful”. “IPs a 
bag jump from foe second 
division to the Premiership, 


but he's taken if in his stride," 
Cooper said. 

He will learn from col¬ 
leagues such as David Hirst, 
signed from Sheffield Wed¬ 
nesday, Southampton’s oppo¬ 
nents at The Dell tomorrow. 
Among their supporters will 
be Davies's father and, while 
most eyes wifi be on Hirst’s 
efforts to make his mark 
against his former employ¬ 
ees, a supporter of their 
greatest rivals may be the one 
who does foe damage. 


Cruyff to 
remain 
in Dutch 
hospital 


for tests 


By Our Sports Staff 


a nominal fee from Vaster- 
as, the Swedish side, after a 
brief trial atVilla-Paik. Vffla. 
will make further payments 
for the 17-year-old if he breaks 
into the first team. 


Hinckley knit together for Trophy quest 


A SERIOUS question arose after two 
rival dubs had merged: what should 
the new dub take as its nickname? 
With the Robins, of Hinckley Athletic, 
and the Eagles, of Hinckley Town, no 
more, a competition was held in a local 
newspaper—and the hosiery tradition 
of the Leicestershire town is now cele¬ 
brated by the Knitters of Hinckley 
■ Un i ted. -- 

- *Dus afternoon.. Hindfo^ts Knitters 
make a 230-mDe trip for an overnight 
stop in Barrow before playing the 
UrtiBond League premier division 
leaders in an FA Trophy third qualify¬ 
ing-round tie.' Having gone through 
three rounds of foe FA Cup before 


Non-League Football by Walter Gammie 


falling in the fourth qualifying round 
to Cohvyn Bay, Hinckley are bidding 
to reach the first round proper of foe 
Trophy and the arrival of the Vauxhaii 
Conference dubs. 

They have already seen off Stafford 
Rangers, after a replay, and Whitby 
Town, winners of the FA Carisberg 
Vase last season, the latter in an 
extraordinary match in which 
Hinckley had a player sent off, went 1-0 
dawn and won 3-1. 

Seven players in the Hinckley squad 
were recruited from Bedwoith United 
by Dean Thomas, foe joint-manager 


(with John Hanna, foe former Athletic 
manager), who enjoyed considerable 
success at Bedworth last season. 

United play in a red-and-blue striped 
kit that is a judicious amalgam of 
Athletic red and Town claret and blue, 
and the committee contains seven 
members from each dub Kevin 
Downes, the chairman, and Stuart 
Millidge, foe secretary, were both 
formerly with Town, a precondition 
laid down by the Dr Martens League 
for the new dub to keep Town’s place 
in its midland division. 

“The former Hinckley Athletic had 


been founded a long time before 
Hinckley Town, but it was Town who 
had made the most recent progress in 
playing terms,” Millidge said. “Town's 
problem was foal their ground was out 
of tite town centre, so foe merger 
brought foe new dub to Middlefield 
Lane. Athletic's ground, where there 
are much better gates." 

Athletic, who were in foe Southern 
League in the 1950s and 1960s, had 
been playing in foe Midland Alliance. 
The merger was adopted by 90 per cent 
of the shareholders. “The past is 
behind us. we’re only thinking to the 
future now." Millidge said. Starting at 
Holker Street tomorrow. 


JOHAN CRUYFF. Holland's 
greatest player, was admitted 
to an Amsterdam hospital 
yesterday complaining of 
chest pains. Doctors said that 
he was “in a satisfactory 
condition”, but would be kept 
under observation for a week. 

“He called an ambulance 
and was brought here,” a 
spokesman for foe University 
Hospital said. “He will be 
undergoing extensive tests.” 

Cruyff. 50. underwent by¬ 
pass surgery in 1991 after 
suffering a heart attack while 
he was manager of Barcelona. 
He had recently been working 
as a football commentator on 
Dutch television. 

Officials from Bayer Lever¬ 
kusen are to protest to Uefa 
about foe treatment of their 
supporters by Belgian police 
after foe Champions' League 
match against SK Lierse in 
Ghent on Wednesday night. 

Reiner Calmund. manager 
of the German dub. claimed 
that he had witnessed support¬ 
ers bong doused with water 
and beaten with sticks by 
Belgian police. “They were 
hitting women and older 
people. People lying on foe 
ground were beaten. It was the 
worst thing I've seen in foot¬ 
ball.” Calmund said. Belgian 
police said that they had acted 
in self-defence. 

Raul Trollope has decided to 
leave Derby County to become 
the second Wales internation¬ 
al to join Fulham in as many 
days. The Nationwide League 
second division side will pay 
Derby £550,000 for the mid- 
field player, with £50.000 to 
follow if they secure promo¬ 
tion. Fulham also completed 
foe signing yesterday of Steve 
McAnespie. the Bolton Wan¬ 
derers defender, for £100,000. 

Trollope. 25, will link up 
with his fellow Welshman, 
Alan Neilson, who moved 
from Southampton for 
E2S0.000 on Tuesday. The 
signings take Fulham's spend¬ 
ing past £45 million since 
Kevin Keegan and Ray Wil¬ 
kins were brought to the club 
by Mohamed A1 Fayed. 

Chris Bart-Williams, of Not¬ 
tingham Forest, is to undergo 
a cartilage operation next 
week and will be out of action 
until March. 

The Bolivia striker. Jaime 
Moreno, returned to Middles¬ 
brough yesterday on a three- 
month loan from foe US 
Major League dub, DC 
United. 


SNOOKER 


Newcomer Stevens shows 
maturity of a veteran 


CONTINUING to substifrite 
foe anonymity of the Llanelli 
and District league for a 
national spotlight. Matthew 
Stevens reached foe semi¬ 
finals of a second consecutive 
world-ranking tournament in 
Preston yesterday. 

Stevens, a semi-finalist at 
foe Grand Prix last month, 
eased through to foe corres- 


ByPhu Yates 


Victoria United Kint 

championship with the assur¬ 
ance of a veteran as he scared 
a 9-1 victory over Martin 


ictory 

Driewiaftowski, whose giant¬ 
killing inarch was ended. 

“Ive had to miss two league 


matches and my team lost 7-0 
last night" Stevens, 20. said 
with youthful enthusiasm, un¬ 
tainted by any sense of low- 
key local engagements being a 
chore. If he continues to play 
with such panache, the Terry 
Griffiths Matchroam Club 
will surely be forced to look for 
a new star player. 

Stevens constructed a 143 
tote! clearance to eannfae pre¬ 
televised highest-break prize 
of £1.500 during a 9-8 win over 
Tony Drago. foe Noll seed, 
in the last 32 before defeating 
Mark W illiams , foe world 


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No4* 9-1 in foe next 
round; 

Those results, coupled with 
his breakthrough at the 
Grand Prix, suggest that the 
former United Kingdom ju¬ 
nior champion possesses the 
credentials to surprise Alan 
McManus or Stephen 
Hendry, the title-holder, over 
the best-of-17 frames today. 

“Even when things weren’t 
going too well I never lost any 
of my self-belief,” Stevens, 
who despite his tender years 
has an abundance erf competi¬ 
tive experience an which to 
call, said. ... 

His father. Morrell esti¬ 
mates that be drove 250,000 
miles while Stevens Jr served 
his snooker apprenticeship on 
die pro-am and junior circuit. 
With his son now standing 
two wins away from a £75.000 
first prize and already guaran¬ 
teed £19,750, those chau figur¬ 
ing duties are beginning to 
look a solid investment 

Stevens has also received 
guidance from the owner of 
die dub that he repres e nts. 
Although he plays more ag¬ 
gressively and at a considera¬ 
bly quicker dip than Griffiths, 
the 1979 world champion, 
Stevens’ has similar qualities 
when it comes to dedication 
and commitment. 

Resuming yesterday with 
foe luxury of a 7-1 lead. 
Stevens completed victory 
only 29 minutes into the 
concluding session as 
Dziewialtowski surrendered 
meekly.. 

He won the ninth frame 
with a 56 break, compiled 
despite being handicapped by 
a number of awkwardly posi¬ 
tioned reds, and foe tenth with 
a late run of 41. 

Gerard Greene, foe 9-2 con¬ 
queror of Steve Davis in the 
second round, again under¬ 
lined his lade of respect for 
reputation by establishing a 
40 advantage over Ronnie 
O’Sullivan, the 1993 UK 
champion* before finishing 
the afternoon at 
44. 


SPORT 


!77iiTrT!dl 


Nicol goes 
the way 
of Jansher 


■ SQUASH: Peter Nicol, of 
Scotland, was beaten by 
Jonathon Power, of 
Canada, in foe final of the 
Qatar International 
tournament in Doha 
ly. Fbwer. the 
seed, won 17-16,15-13, 
14-17.9-15,15-8 as he 
recorded his sixth PSA Tour 
win in a little more than a 
year. The victory came after 
Power’s win over Jansher 
Khan, the world No 1, in the 
semi-finals, a win he 
described as foe best of his 
career. 


Bears reborn 


■ RUGBY LEAGUE: The 
reborn Oldham dob will 
play at Boundary Park, 
the borne of Oldham Athletic 
Football Ch*, next 
season under a 12-month 

rental agreement, revert 
to red-aad-while hooped 

jerseys and rantrodnee 

their “RonghyedS” nickname 
after the demise of 
Oldham Bears. 


Best in demand 


■ MMBYUNKMI: 

Newport have emerged as 
front-runners to secure foe 
services of the former 
England coach, Dick Best, 
as director of rugby. Best 
yesterday settled a dispute 
with Harlequins, who 
dismissed him six months 
ago. 


Lonardleads 


■ OOLFt Peter Lonard. 
foe Australian Masters 
champion, recorded a 
course-record, uiue^andcr- 
par 63 to take a too-stroke 
lead in foe opening round of 
the Australian Open in 
Melbourne yesterday. He 
leads Andrew Cottar! of 
Scotland, on 65. 



By Robert Sheehan, bridge correspondent 


Defence is one of the hardest areas of the game. Would you have 
avoided the trap on the following hand? 


Dealer North 


Robber bridge 



2H 

4H AR.- 

Contract: Four Hearts by South. 

Against Four Hearts, West 
leads the queen of dubs, 
covered by the king and ace. 
East cashes the jade of chibs, 
but what should he play next? 

It looks routine to play a third 
dub but if declarer ruffs high 
— which seems likely — then 
West is unable to overruff and 
foe cat will be well and truly 
out of the bag. Even foe most 
unenterprising declarer wfl] 
now. surely, reject foe trump 
finesse and pin his hopes on 
East’s “marked” king being 
bare. 

So East should switch to a 
spade at trick three and not 
reveal the position. A suspi¬ 
cious declarer will still come to 
foe right amclusdon as to why 
East did not continue with a 
third dub; but at least East 
will not have provided an 
exact blueprint of the layout 


Lead: queen of clubs 


This deal comes from one of 
foe latest Batsford bridge 
books, Basic Defence by Fred¬ 
die North. It is available direct 
from the publisher on 01376 
321276. 

□ In its “Movers and Shak¬ 
ers" series, Channel 4 is 
showing a programme on 
Monday about the efforts of a 
North London housewife to 
cut the mustard at the Young 
Chelsea Bridge Club. Though 
there's not much in die way of 
technical comen! there are 
one or two good scenes at foe 
YC. The programme's claim 
that foe YC is “foe toughest 
bridge dub in the country” is 
incorrect — that title belongs 
to TGR’s. 

□ Robert Sheehan writes on 
bridge Monday to Friday in 
Sport and in the Weekend 
section on Saturday. 


1 AV,"77 




By PfuSp Howard 


PLOCHTEACH 
a. A supply teacher 
h. Aboard game 
c. A sheep disease 


of onesdf 
by hand 


FLAPDRAGON 

a. A pancake 

b. A biplane 

c. Raisins in brandy 


GUTTLE 

a. To make a 

b. To catch a 

c. Idle gossip 

ARISTOLOGY 

a. The study of nobs 

b. The art of lunching 

c. The science of com 

Answers on page 50 



By Raymond Keene 
CHESS CORRESPONDENT 


32 Rd3 

33 Ncl 


Prodigy shines 


34 Ral 

35 Qd4 


It was interesting to observe that 
Britain's young prodigy, Luke 
McShane, 13. had to struggle 
somewhat to achieve his inter¬ 
national master tide and on a 
number of occasions narrowly 
missed the norm before, eventually 
becoming Britain’s youngest ever 
international master. Having 
jumped drat hurdle, though. 
McShane is now swiftly beginning 
to challenge for foe grandmaster 
title. Here are two of his wins from 
the London international. 

White Luke McShane 
Blade Angus Dunn in gt on 
London. October 1997 

SidGan Defence 


38 Rxa7 
37 QM 


RaS 

Oc5 

M 

Qc7 

Ne5 

Black resigns 


White Daniel Gonnally 
Blade Luke McShane 
London, October 1997 


1 

64 

cs 

2 

NO 

d 6 

3 

d4 

Nf 6 

4 

Nc3 

c»M 

5 

Nxd4 

g 6 

6 

Be3 

Bg7 

7 

f3 

Nc 6 

B 

Bc4 

OO 

9 

Qd 2 

Bd7 

10 

(MM) 

Ns5 

It 

Bb3 

RcS 

12 

h4 

h5 

13 

B95 

Rc5 

14 

Kbl 

b5 

15 

04 

85 

18 

gxh5 

Nxh5 

17 

Nd5 

Re 8 

18 

N14 

s4 

19 

Nxh5 

gxh5 

20 

8d5 

Rxd5 

21 

exd5 

Nc4 

22 

Os2 

QaS 

23 

Rhgl 

Kh 8 

24 

Bel 

83 

25 

Nb3 

axb 2 

26 

Bxb2 

Na3+ 

27 

Kct 

Bxb2+ 

28 

Kxb2 

Qt>4 

29 

Qel 

NC4+- 

30 

Kal 

Qa3 

31 

Qc3+ 

16 



King's 

Indian Defence 

1 

d4 

N (6 

2 

c4 

06 

3 

Nc3 

Bg7 

4 

»4 

d 6 

5 

M3 

0-0 

8 

Be2 

85 

7 

0-0 

N 06 

8 

d5 

Ne7 

9 

b4 

Nh5 

10 

ftel 

06 

11 

c5 

Nf4 

12 

Bfl 

gs 

13 

Nd2 

15 

14 

cmi 6 

oed 6 

15 

Nc4 

94 

16 

b5 

h5 

17 

Ba3 

Rffi 

18 

Qb3 

Kh 8 

19 

b 6 

aB 

20 

QM 

as 

21 

Ne3 

M 

22 

@d5 

Nx15 

23 

Ne4 

Rg 6 

24 

NxfS 

BxfS 

25 

RacJ 

Rea 

26 

Qb3 

Bxs4 

27 

Rxe4 

Nh3+ 

28 

gxh3 

gxh3+ 

29 

Kh1 

005 

3D 

RxM+ 


31 

Qxh3 

Qxh3 

32 

Bxh3 

Rxc1 + 

33 

Bxcl 

Bh 6 

34 

Ba3 

Bt4 

35 

BcS 

©4 

36 

Bb2+ 

Be5 

37 

Bxe5+ 

d*e5 

30 

Bxb7 

Rxb 6 

39 

Bc 6 

Rb2 

40 

Kfll 

Rxa2 

White teslgns 



□ Raymond Keene writes on chess 
Monday to Friday in Sport and m 
foe Weekend section on Saturday. 




By Raymond Keene 


White to play. This position is 
from the game Speelman — 
Veiimircwic, Maribor 1980. 

Black’s advanced queenside 
pawns give him an edge in this 
endgame. How did Speelman 
now neutralise Black's efforts 
to win foe game? 


Solution on page 50 





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THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28199? r 



Merit Cu p finishes leg almost four days behind winner 

Dalton finds nowhere to hide 


STEPHEN MUNDAY/AHSPOBT 


Edward Gorman sees 
a great sailor wipe 
the egg from his face 
and hatch a new plan 
for the rest of the race 


THIS was the most painful of 
Whitbread finishes: the great Grant 
Dalton, in his fifth Whitbread Round 
the World Race, the winner of the maxi 
class in the previous race, struggling 
into Fremantle in seventh place at the 
end of the second leg, 95 hours behind 
die I eg-winner, Gunnar Krantz, on 
Swedish Match. 

In doing so. Dalton, of New Zealand, 
and his highly rated crew on Merit 
Cup have blown a huge hole in one of 
the best-prepared Whitbread cam¬ 
paigns. amassing just 48 points for the 
leg and slipping to fifth place overall, 
Never, even in their worst nightmares, 
did Dalton and his team envisage 
arriving anywhere in seventh place. 

On the dock, under a starlit sky. it 
was agonising to watch as Dalton, or 
“DaJts" as he is known, stepped 
sheepishly ashore, hands in pockets, to 
face race officials who. oblivious to the 
realities of the situation, persevered 
with the second-leg medal ceremony 
and then the presentation to Dalton 
and his crew of two magnums of 
champagne. 

Rarely can such excellent wine have 
been more predictably and needlessly 
wasted. Dalton himself declined toe 


‘Never in their worst 
nightmares did they 
envisage arriving 
anywhere in seventh’ 

chance to spray the waiting camera¬ 
men. so two of his crew, with ruthless 
and unsmiling intent, sprayed him 
instead, emptying toe lot without a 
drop passing their lips. 

In toe background, not visible but 
present in the minds of many of those 
watching, were the airwomen crew on 
EF Education. With just 65 miles left to 
sail as Dalton crossed toe line, they 
must have been glowing with satisfac¬ 
tion. They had not beaten him. but to 
finish within as little as five hours of 
Merit Cup over 4,600 miles of toe 
Southern Ocean was humiliating for a 
man who has often had the temerity to 
say that all-women crews have no 
place racing against the men in toe 
Whhbread. 

Dalton is a decent man. though, and 
he was big enough to adkngwledge, not . 
only that be had a little egg on his face, 
but also that Christine Guillou and her 
crew on EF Education deserved praise 
for the way in which they have applied 
themselves during one of the toughest 
legs in the Whitbread. 

"If they had beaten us, I would have 
stabbed myself through the heart with 
the dividers on the chart table," Dalton 
said. “Another of toe crew would have 
done something unprintable with a 
pineapple." A few minutes later, at toe 
dockside press conference, he added: 
"They [the women] actually did a really 
nice job—these are very physical boats 
and they did a really nice job." 
Although admitting that this was the 



Dalton tries to pot a brave face on his second-leg embarrassment after limping into Fremande yesterday 


worst experience of his long profession¬ 
al sailing career. Dalton came ashore 
with a bruised ego but showing all the 
signs of a man ready to fight back. 
“Obviously we are angiy with our¬ 
selves, but once my ego has corrected 
itself, well be able to sit down and 
reflect on whar went wrong." he said. 
“I firmly believe that to win. you have 
to be consistent. We have stopped 


bring consistent for a leg and we will 
have to win the next leg." 

It all went irretrievably wrong for 
Merit Cup on toe righto day out from 
Cape Town, when Dalton and his long¬ 
time navigator. Mike Quilter. got 
themselves caught out to toe north 
while in fourth place. Suddenly, boats 
behind them that had been prepared to 
travel additional distances to get 



Christine Briand, left, and Bridget Suckling helped to keep EF Education 
within striking distance of Dalton and Merit Cup on the second leg 


further south, were Dying as they got 
the best of a new low-pressure system, 
while Merit Cup floundered in light 
winds, quickly slipping 100 miles 
behind toe peck. Soon they were in 
completely different weather and. 
while Lawrie Smith, on Silk Cut, and 
the others ahead started stacking up 
400-mile days, Dalton was darting 
into what he called “delivery mode” 
Yesterday he said that he had always 
aimed to be race leader by toe time the 
fleet readied Auckland, at the end of 
• the fourth leg, if an overall win was to 
.beachieved. |nviewT^tois4*n5®e^edc 
setback, he has revisod hss/strategy 
and now hopes to lead by Fbrt 
Lauderdale, at the end of the sixth of 
toe nine legs. Dalton also said that he 
would be employing a new meteoro¬ 
logical team to advise Quilter, who 
would work alongside his existing 
router. Bob Rice, with whom Merit 
Cup have an exclusive contract 
In common with an increasing 
number of skippers in this fascinating 
race, Dalton is delighted that the old 
elapsed-time scoring system is now 
history. “Thank heavens for the points 
system,” he said, to howls of laughter 
all round. “I am a big fen of the points 
system — there's no doubt about thaL” 


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Clifton seek to travel 
down road of change 


CLIFTON, who face a 600- 
mile round trip in toe English 
Hockey Association Women's 
Cup on Sunday, are thankful 
for a Premier League home 
game against Sutton Coldfield 
t omor row (a Correspondent 
writes). The fourth-round cup 
draw against Whitley Bay is 
"a nightmare", according to 
the Clifton manager, Graham 
Culliford. who would like a 
regional ised draw until the 
last (6. 

"Flying on Sunday would 
have used up our entire Scot¬ 
tish life sponsorship moneyed 
EZ000." he said. "The chosen 
option of a coach and over¬ 
night stay Is still a huge 

expense. Apart from that, it is 
crucifying die players, who 
will have a hard fixture the 
day before on Saturday.” 

Clifton, in second place, 
should maintain their league 


position at the expense of a 
Sutton Coldfield side that has 
dropped into die relegation 
rone with only four points 
from six games. 

In other games. High town 
visit Slough in the league and 
are at home to Canterbury, of 
the first division, in the cup; 
Doncaster meet a depleted 
Ipswich side in the league and 
Blueharts. of the second divi¬ 
sion, in the cup; and Olton 
travel to Trojans in toe league 
and Taunton Vale in the cup. 
□ Kerry Moore, a midfield 
player, and Katy Roberts, a 
goalkeeper, are toe only new¬ 
comers to toe 1998 England 
squad of 24 announced 

yesterday. 

SQUAD: H How, C R«J. K Robots. J 
Bunsen, S Banks, K BOHOen. P Mfe, J 
Mould C Voss. K Brawi. L Ccpind. U 
Nfchois. J arc&i. M CMw, J trrpson, T 
Ctdan.l N w c a nw, M Dawes. JSwawwn. 
F Greenrjn, K Uoara. L MM*. D Hanlon- 

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PUXSTEACH 

(c) PhotQ OTSt isa t iog of hffl lambs rasing lesions and cr o pp i ng of 
the ears. It is thougfe to be increasing, and may be die same as 
yeOowscs or sanL It may be caused by eating bog asphodel, which 
has a yefiow Sower. 

FLAPDRAGON 

(c} "A play in wfai<± they eatdi raisins oat of burning brandy and. 
extinguishing them by dosing toe month, eat them." That is, 
snapdragon. If yon can play snapdragon, you can play fiapdragon. 
The original sense may have beni identical wife a dialectai sense of 
snapdragon, viz. a figure of a dragon's bead with snapping jaws, 
carried about by toe mummers at Cbr^mas, 

GUTTLE 

fe) To eat voraciously; to gormandise. Presumably from gut 
iaBaamd by guzde. Thackeray Critical Review. 1844: “Qeopatnt 
page guttling toe figs in the basket which bad b rought the asp." 

ARISTOLOGY 

(b) The art or "science" of dining. From the Greek dnflQfl breakfast, 
luncheon * login discourse. “The Romans defied all toe tides of 
aristofogy by their abominable excesses." 


SOLUTION TO WINNING CHESS MOVE 
1 Bxg7! Nxg7 (1 Bxg7 2 Ne7* KB 3 NwS Bxb24 NW! c3 5 Nc4 c2 6 VbA£ 
and While wiD be a pawn up) 2 Nh6* Kh8 3 Nxf7* KgS 4 Nhb» with 
perpetual check. 


Reading set 
sights 
on double 

MANAGERS ami coaches 
generally disapprove of dou¬ 
ble headers because of the 
physical strain on players 
(Sydney Frisian writes). How¬ 
ever. trine premi e r division 
dubs are involved in the fifth 
round of toe men's English 
Hockey Association Cup on 
Sunday and aH 12 face a full 
league programme 

tomorrow. 

Three previous winners. 
Teddingbm. Gufldfdrd and 
East Grinstead. have been 
riimmated from the cup com¬ 
petition. fearing the top three 
sides in tor league, Cannock, 

Sout h g a te and Reading, with. 

their sights on die double this 
season. • 

Reading have an easier 
weekend, having beaten East 
Grinstead in tiw fourth round 
of the cup a fortnight ago and 
Southgate in the league fast 
Sunday. 

With an unchanged side, 
they have a league engage¬ 
ment againstTeddington and 
a cup-tie against Barford Ti¬ 
gers. Both are away 

gamgs. 

Caimock. according to 
Martin Gilbody. their manag¬ 
er, are stiS shellshocked after 
the 6-1 defeat at Canterbury 
last week, but will make no 
changes for the home matches 
against Gufldford in the 
league and Old Loughtonians 
in the cup. 

Toughness is a commodity 
foal Hounslow win need for 
their away cup match against 
Canterbury. Paul King, the 
Hounslow manager,-expects 
Nick Taylor, iris goalkeeper, 
to be kept busy, but said: 
“Much will depend on how 
Bollond plays in deep de¬ 
fence.’’ 


TELEVISION CHOICE 


Too young to drink 



999 Lifesavers 

BBC1,8J00pm 

The 999 series is usually about people who go 
through dreadful experiences bit manage to 
survive to tell tbe tale. The tradition is broken 
tonight in a special edition devoted to under-age 
drinking. Among those not appearing is Graham 
Bailey. He died mi a railway tine next to the pub 

where he had drunk more than six pints of lagec at 

a friend's birthday parfy. He was 14. Wealso hear 
about Leigh Green, who became addicted to 
alcohol after starting drinking at )L The habit has 
not only spGthis family butted him to crime and 

prison. These and other cases put flesh on a survey 

showing that some 140.000 children in Britain 
under 16 drink toe equivalent of seven pints of beer 
a week. The .programme indudes an information 
film on toe physical and social dfects of alcohol, 
made with me Health Education Authority. 

War Walks . . ■ 

BBC2,3D0pm 

Professor Richard. Holmes may remind some 
viewers of Dr Magnus fyke, another msn of 
teaming who became a distinguished television 
populanser. The two men are not dissimilar in 
looks and they have the same bustling enthusiasm 
for their subject, hi the arm-waving department, 
however, Pyke still reigns supreme Tonight, 
Holmes reaches the English C5vfl War and me 
decisive battle at Naseby in Northamptonshire m 
June 1645. Even tiiore wro find the period less than 
gri p pin g will respond to Hofines's spirited 
narrative which. asusuaL is good on. the historical 
background and the weaponry and does its best to 
evoke the sense of place. But while the site erf the 
conflict is still yielding up musket balls and other 
artefacts of baffle, the Helds of oil seed rape give the 
area a most un-17fo century appearance. 

Moat Wanted 
J7V, 9.00pm 

This is essentially a variation on toe Crimemtch 
formula of using television to appeal to die public 
to help solve crimes. As the ntie implies, the 
emphasis is an people the police most want to find, 
whetfto- dangerous criminals or missing persons 
thought to be at risk. One of tonight's appeals 



Routkrige goes undercover (BBCl 9-30pm) 

becoming more vicious earit tiine-The senes alro 
includes features on the latest ‘fevejapnOTtem 

detection and novri ways irfranmiingtowaayj« 

on crime prevention. Hie bests are Penny Smm. 
who presents Crime Monthly m toe JTV London 
region, and Derma Mumaghan of ITN and The 
Big Story. . . 

HettyW aiuth ropp Investigates 
BBCl. 930pm 

Patricia Routledge’s OAP detective returns for a 
third series to right more wrongs and to leave aw 
"worid.-or at least Lancashire, a bener place. Like 
Dangetfield , which it has succeeded in t his stot, 
this is a show to feel comfortable with. The portents 
may »r r rar to be cm toe dark side, and none marc 
so than in tonight's plot about an arsonist 
terrorising a council estate. But what appear to be 
big crimes turnout to be containaJWe and nobody 
gets seriously hurt. Although it is not very 
believable flat a woman should celebrate hex 

senior dtizehsltip by setting up a detective agow, 

and even less that the pobce should take her 
seriously, RoutiedgeTs expert and sympathetic 
performance is a continued delight. The sam e can 
be sa id of Dominic Monaghan as Hetty's even 
mare unlikely young assistant. Peter Waymark 


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RADIO CHOICE 


Perfor ma nce on 3: Prokofiev Festival 
Radio3,730pm 

The pick of a pretty thin night is this, toe first of 
three broadcasts from 6 k Festival Hall which-will 
feature works by Sergei Prokofiev that are not often 
played. Tonight* programme, narrated far/ Simon 
GbUow, focuses on early compositions, written ata 
time when Prokofiev, having won a place at Che St 
Petersburg Conservatory when he was onfy 13, had 
emerged as an anti-traditionalist. Tonight's 
programme scans with the Violin Concerto No 1 
anaincludes. at 825, ChoutTale of the Buffoon, a 
ballet commissioned by Diaghilev. That is 
preceded, at 8.05, fay a word portrait of tbe 
composer who had written two operas by the age ctf 
11 and whose musical output was to continue id be 
prodigious for the rest of his life (he died in 1953). 


RADIO 1 


6X0m Kteri Glaring andZoft Be! 9 l 00 Simon Mayo 12X0 
Jo Whiay. tadudea at 12X0pm Newsbeat 200 MsrkRadcHa 
4 jO 0 Dave Pearra SL45 NsMsbeat 6-00 Pate Tang: Basanifal 
Selection 940 Judge Jutes IIjOO Westwood: Rado t Rap 
Straw ZOOaro One In thB Jungle 4X0 Charfe Jordan 


RADIO 2 


SjOOam Alex Lester 7 JO Wake Up to Wdgan 9X0 Ken Brnce 
11.30 JrnmyYajng1J0pwI>fc6teThrowBr3L00 Ed Stewart 
5X5 Jchn Durm7X0 Hubert Gregg7X0 Friday right is Music 
Nigrtf 9.15 Kes 9X0 Listen to the Band IOloo The Arts 
ftoorammB IZOShra Chariee Move 4^0 Diene Loiin Jeintat 


RADIO 5 LIVE 


SgOOpn The Breakfast Programme 9JW Mcky Campbell. 
Topical phone-in, pkia Euronews and heekh Issues 1290 
Mddey wtth Mak 2 j 00 pm Ruecoe oh Five 4 j 00 NaOomvtde 
7.00 News Extra 7JO Alan Green's Sportatalk &30 Friday 
Sport Chariton ABIeOc ySwtndon Town, ton The Vatey. Plus, 
term© news ton to Dates Cup Rnal. and Richard Dunwoody 
teth to weekend's racing IOjOO Paper Tate 11 jOO News Bora 
12 j 00 After Hours 2JOOmo Up AS MgM 3L00 Morning Reporte 


VIRGIN RADIO 


5J0am Jeremy dark 7J00 Lynn Parsons 10 DD (FM) Robin 
Banks (All) Graham Dane 1 . 00 pm (FM) Nick Abbot (MW) 
Nicky Hama 4.00 Russ a n' Jcno 7J» (FM) Paul Ooyte (AM) 
Cannin Jones 1000 Mark Forrest 200am Ffchand Porter - _ 


TALK RADIO 


oaoem B> Oeerton and Carol McGfflen 9 loo Stsott Chtahotm 
12JM Lorraine Kafy 2JMpm Tonvny Boyd 4JX> Peter Deetey' 
TJOO Mce Dee's Sportszone \OJOO Mfce Afcn IMm Mte 
Dhddn 


Left Dance 

. Radio 4.10.00am (FM only) 

This series is fast establishing itself as a useful 
sbeial-history of toe 20th century, at least to the 
extent that the flamboyance or otherwise of out¬ 
ward, behaviour tends to mir ror toe outlook and 
mofidence levels of society as a whole. Lets Dance 
is about party-going rather than dancing as sudi 
and this second programme tracks toe decline of 
formal balls, which began to lose their status late 
in toe Edwardian era. But if that helped to make 
dancing less formally ^visible and certainly less erf a 
measure of social position, every era has nonethe¬ 
less used danang to some extmt as an excuse for a 
get-together, not excluding toe raves of die 1990s 
attended by young people in numbers thax some 
football dubs woiudkm for. Peter Barnard 


WORLD SERVICE 


UOm Nawsday 8.15 Europe Today 7 jB 0 News 7.15 Off to 
Tbe Handmaid's Tala 7JO Music Redaw &00 News 
a.tc Patse ter .Thought B.15 Mtatwety 5L30 John Peal 9JOO 
News; News in German (048 only)9J95 World Business Report 
9.15 CHIdren in CorwaraaOon9i30BBC EngSah: Specking of 
Eng 6 sh 9j45 Sporia Roundup 10u00 Nmadeak 10L30 
Assignment 11 X 0 Nawsdask 11 X 0 Focus on Faih 12X0 
Nows 12X5pm Wodd Business Report 12.15 Britain Today 
12X0 Mejor KBtere 12X5 Sports Roundup 1X0 Newshour 
2X0 News 2X6 Outfaok 2X0 MUttracfc Alternate: 3X0 
News; Naws in German (848 only) SM Poatbal Extra 3.15 
Joianay.to to Centra of to Atom 3X0 Sdanca h Acton 4X0 
News 4.15 The-Nsw Europe 430 Tbe World Today; News in 
German (549onM 4X5 Britefei Tod^ 6X0 Europe Tbday 5X0 
ycrid Buakiass Report 5*45 tracts Roundup fipoi^ewsde^k,. 
|X 0 Focus on F^fth; Naws in Gemrahl648 only) 7X0 ftews 
Fin OuOook 7X5 Pause- tor -Thought 7X0 Mumradc 
AXamattwe 5X0 Newshou-9X0 Naws 9X5 Wortd Bustaass 
fteport MS Britain Today 9X0 Asopis and Potties 10X0 
Newsdesk 10X0 The New Bdrope 1045 Sports Roundup 
11X0 Nows 11X5 OuBook T1X0 FAjftttradt ABemativs 12X0 
Nawsdetec 12X0am From the WeekSes 1245 Britain Today 
1XO Newsdaek 1X0 Justa MhUa 2X0 Nawsday 2X0 People 
and Potties 5X0 Naws 3X5 World Bustoss Report 3.15 
Sports Roundup 3X0 Scienca in Action 4X0 Newsdesk 4X0 
The Work) Today 455 Off to She# 


CLASSIC FM 


SXoam Nick Bailey wflh Morning March and Breakfast 
Baroque 9X0 Henry Keiy. Michael Barry’s Classic Recipe a 
bated martegue apptea Ftus, CJassic Masterpiece end Kefl/s 
Ckt> SancMch IX^m Listener Request Hou- 2 X 0 Concarta 
Schumann (VtoCn Concerto ip D miner) 3X0 Jamie Ofck 7X0 
Newsrtght 7X0 Sonata. Mozart (Haho Sonata No 15 In F) 5.00 
Evening Concert. Hoist (Symphonic Poem Indra); Shankar 
fteman KXyan); RhrtecjMtohatew (Musical Picture Sadko); 
Scrtoln (Poem ot Ecstasy); Hotet IChorai Hymns ton the Rig 
Itecta); Chavaz (Stefonia India) 10X0 Michaal Mappin 2 X 0 ani 
Concerto (r) 4X0 Saly Palereon 






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Quartet h D minor. Fifths); I 
BaatawenJEgmont Overtime); Handel (Music for 
foe Royal Fraworks); Gershwin, transcr Gfobona .. 
(&rertjra,^Giri Craz^; Mozart (Flute and Harp 

9X0 Homing CoDoctfon, with Pater Hobday. Schubert 
(Overture Rosamunds); Bach (Toccata and Fucfoe 
te D minor); Gluck (Dance of foe Blessed Spirits); 
Liszt (Transcendental Studtes Nos 9-12) 

10X0 Muekral Encounters, with Mary MIfer. Robert 
Bums (Scots Wha Hae); Gaspaml (Through foe 
Looking Glass); Rubinstein (Barcarolle No 4); 
Mehter (Ruckert Uedar); Beethoven {CfAo Sonata 
n A); Sbteto (Lucmnotar); Mahler (beder Ehes 
Fahrenden Geseien) 

12X0 Composer of foe Week: Massenet 

IXOpw Perfor ma nc e on 3. Charrtor Music ton 
Manchester. The FKzwfflam Quartet performs 
Haydn's Sevan Lest Words on the Cross 
2 X 0 The BBC Arcttve. Schubert editions ot piano 
music and string quartets. Stephen Plaistow 
Introduces three ewty quartets played by the 
Melos Quartet of Stuttgart and pays kfoute to the 
. pianist Maria Donate, a Schnobet pupfi, who ded 
last year. Irrakides Schubert (String Quartet in D; 
Plano Pleoe In E flat Sorrtea in C,h^qute;* . 
Quartet in C; An da rtino Varie in B mrrar^. Pkn 
Etfih Vogel and James Gibb, pianos, periorm 
Schubet (Quartte in B flaf) . - . 

.Songs by Stephen Storace, 

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solos by JearvBtoiste Krumphdfe and Jan 
Ladistev Dussek in performances by Musica 
•' -Fabute: Sarah PDlcrw, soprano, and Jan Waftera, 
barpW 

AM Music Machine, with Tommy Pearson 
5X0 In Tune. Arthur Grumteux’s sublime performance 
of Messeris Vfcfti Sonata In B Bat 
7X0 Perfor ma n ce on 3: Prokottev FesttvaL See 
Choice. Uvb from foe Festival Hall. London.. 
London Fhahaniwnfo under Alexander Lazarev, 
Vadkn Repin, violin, Simon Cafow, narrator. 
Prokofev (Dresms; \fcHn Concerto No 1 ) 8.05 A 
Portrait rtProkotev 8X5 Concert, part two. 

• - Prokofiev: Chout (Tale ot foa Buffoon) 

&35 Designs for LMn 0 (Soumfirn the Century}. 

10X0 Hear and Now. Stephan Platt Introduces the first 

xf three reports ton foe Hudderefidd 
Co'g Brt jp eray M usic FasU vri .^Kanmarensemblen 
under Tom my Andersson performs wold 

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6,10 Fanning Today 6 X 5 Prayer for foe 1 
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9X0 News 9X5 Desert tstanct Discs. Sue Lawfe/s 
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9 v 45 Feedb ack . Presorted ty Chris DunMey ’ 

10.00 njtn An AM ot Worship 
10X0 (FM) News; Laf* Dancel See Choice (Z/4\ 
10.15 &W) On Thte Day, with Geoffrey Wheeler 
10X0 Woman's Hoirt. Introduced by Ruth Wlshait • 

11X0 The Nabnal ffistory Programme 
1200 Naw^ You and Yours, fmrk WMtaher preaants 
reports on Gonswner and social affairs 
12XSprn The Food Progr amm e 1255 Waather - 
1 XOTha World at One. with ffick Clarie 
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TELEVISION 51 




sad farewell to Flora and the Grove 


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I t wasn't quite “stop aQ die 
clocks” time, but it was dose. 
Up anti ticmm the country 
yesterday afternoon, from rooms 
that normally echo to the sound of 
noi$y teatimefr fell quiet' Ihe sDence 
broken anfy by a familiar tdc- 
vision theme tune and the sound of 




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Grove (BBC1)' had just finished 
and Fima had acttaDy.tfied. No 
miracle cure, no lart-mmubcranis- 
skm—justdeadL 
With the memory still vivid of 
the pink balloon rising symbolical¬ 
ly into the Tyneside sky, children 
everywhere will have faced the 
same challenge. How to cheer up. a 


Disgusting handkerchiefs 
dabbed awkwardly at pink- 
rimmed eyes. ^Come on. Mum — 
she's net really dead.' it’s only 
television. ” The sobbing subsided, 
but only as long as it took for the 
emotional parent - to renfombq- 
Teny — Terry who loved Flora, of 


course—nobly recovering the bag 
titan ccmined all her treasured 
.possesions' only to 'discover 
that ...it was too late. 

Between sniffs, dtnranghr par¬ 
ous wondered how they could 
spare their children such awful 
tilings while, between dabs, sensi- 
ble oifldren wcHtderedbow to tdi 
them they already knew; “There, 
there, Mum. People get side, 
people d for irs rafuraL* “Nat on 
. children's television, it isn't.".... 

Certainlyrtwasn*twbenlwasa 
legitimate watcher of children's 
television, rather than an occas¬ 
ional viewer. I've had a long, hard 
think Belle and Sebastian. The 
Singing Ringing Tree* Foltyfoct — 
and I cant remember, anybody 
dying. Ekteriyrdatiyes occasional¬ 
ly “went away 1 ", arid one or two 
animals, but nobody actually died 
— not like Flora, spirited, pretty 
Flora, who bardyafartnight ago 
was Tunnin g away from .besne. 
She only had a headache then. 


Death, like everything else m 
Byker Grave, happens quickly and 
it is tins pare that allows the Jong- 
running series, based loosely on a 
Newcastle youth centre; to tackle 

Hr llIhLRS come^seto In the past. 

happens acridmtaSty to set fire to 
her mean employer^ hair salon, 
you know that m the next couple of 
scenes she- wifi have owned up 
(twjc^ and been cautioned by the 
police. 

N evertheless, while good 
always wins in the end. 
seme of tiie storylines in 
the series, tedding such subjects as 
racism, bullying and under-age 
sex, have made for slightfy uncom- 
fnrtabte viewing. At least for 
parents. 

But Breads death was beautiful¬ 
ly done. Chris Woodger was the' 
epitome of awkward adolescent 
confusion as Terry and Kenyaim 



Matthew 

Bond 


Christiansen heart-stoppingly 
moving as Flora. Her best scenes 
were probably on Tuesday. By 
yesterday afternoon, as her brain 
tumour took its foul grip, all Flora 
could do was lie in bed, meticu¬ 
lously plan her own funeral and 
tell heT mother — gulp — that she 
loved her. Oh no. not again: has 
anybody got a hankie, please? 

Anybody wondering what I'm 
doing watching children’s tele¬ 


vision. cant have seen Channel 4's 
latest offering for grown-ups. “I'm 
bared rigid,” announced Simon, 
midway through Pommies. Me 

too, Simon, me too. 

On paper. Pommies must have 
looked such a good idea, a three- 
pan documentary about expatriate 
Brits who Gve in Australia- Should 
be interesting and funny: perfect 
Bun if it was interesting ana funny, 
whar was it doing on at 20pm. 
especially on a channel that is 
increasingly aware of the box- 
office appeal of lightweight docu¬ 
mentaries? Being very bad and 
very boring was whai it was doing. 

ll should have been refreshing to 
see a docwnemaiy-makcr aban¬ 
don the fiy-on-the-waH technique, 
but whai Brian Hill replaced it 
with made you long for a rerun of 
Sytvania Waters. He just didn't 
have enough material, especially 
material that was — to embrace 
the vernacular — on message. Did 
the making of a commercial for 


Australian cheese really have 
much to do with being a Brit in 
Australia? Despite the fact it was 
written by one — to wii, Simon — 
the answer is no. Nevertheless, we 
saw hours of it. 


H ill's disappointingly 
straightforward ap¬ 
proach was to allow his 
three subjects (two men and one 
couple) to say their party piece to 
camera. So Simon, the copywriter, 
cracked a lot of pre-rehearsed 
jokes (The thing l miss most about 
England? France”): Rowan, the 
television producer, banged on 
about failings in Australia's nat¬ 
ional character; and the Boyles 
complained -a lot. They'd derided 
to come home, you see. 

They had been there for seven 
years, during which time they 
appeared to have gone off the 
beach, the views, the birds, the 
beer, die barbecues, the steaks, the 
sausages, the mosquitoes, the jelty- 


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7.00 BBC Bnaktmat Nm (ft (8775T)' 

9.00 Good LMng{5280206> 

9.2S Styte Chrftanflfl (5292041) 

9.50 KHroy (7) (2673193) . . r. 

1(k30 CWt Cook, WbiTt Cook {1981995} 
1035 The My Useful Show (75621545) 
1135 Change That (9510006) -V ; - 
12JQ0 Newt (ft (6977577) 

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Friday November 28 1997 


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Newcastle gain 
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EVEN in the post-match press 
conference. Newcastle 
United’s venture into the Nou 
Camp stadium could not 
shake off the surreal qualities 
that had surrounded their 
European Cup Champions’ 
League meeting with 
Barcelona. 

When Louis van Gaal, the 
coach of the Spanish dub, 
spake, he did so in the lan¬ 
guage of the visiting team, 
waiting for it to be translated 
for the benefit of the local 
media with an air of almost 
complete indifference. 

Van Gaal has some Span¬ 
ish. but his mistrust of jour¬ 
nalists in Barcelona is such 
that he preferred to converse 
with them, grudgingly, in 
English. Onty when the Span¬ 
ish press had departed did he 
visibly relax and open up to 
the extent that he almost broke 
into a smile. His theme? 
Football in England. 

The former coach of Ajax is 
something of an aficionado of 
the FA Carting Premiership. 
His affection for the English 
game is apparently stronger 
than that for the sport in die 
country where he now plies 
his trade: The great tactician 
and organiser admires, natu¬ 
rally enough, the discipline of 
English players. 

Surprisingly, he also has 
time for the standard of the 
game in Britain. When many 
would mock Newcastle's des¬ 
perately flat performance in 
Barcelona, Van Gaal placed 
an emphasis on the positive. 

In {articular, he suggested 
that there is no need far 
pessimism about the future of 
the game in England, despite 
Newcastle’s early exit from 
the Champions' League. “I 
like Newcastle and I like the 
way they play.” he said. “But 
when you lose your two strik¬ 
ers you are almost finished. 

"Alan Shearer is one of the 


By Davyd Mad dock 

best strikers around and any 
team without him and their 
second striker would find it 
impossible. But I think in 
Shearer, English football has 
a symbol that raises hope. Not 
only does he prove there is 
great technique in your game, 
out he will remain in England. 

"I wanted to sign him when 
I was coach at Ajax, but I 
know it would be very difficult 
for me m sign him now. He 
earns a million dollars a year 
in England and if someone 
offers him \h million dollars, 
it would not matter to him. 


Gross profit 


English .football has ' the 
money to keep all its best 
players now and bring in the 
best overseas players. In a 
very short tune that will 
become significant" 

Van Gall's assessment was 
accurate in the sense that 
Newcastle would cqrtainly 
have proved a greater threat 
had they been able to draw on 
their first-choice forwards. 
However, their performance 
in the Nou Camp illustrated a 
constant British failing of 
recent seasons. 



Van Gaah admiring 



No 1263 


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( 6 ) 

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rank} (6) 

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21 Attack (22k an animal (4) 


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DOWN-. I Cabbage 2 Lasso 3 Beargarden 4 Tackle 
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Everyone expected John 
Barnes to play up front in 
Barcelona, including, it seems, 
the Newcastle players. Kenny 
Dalglish decided to employ 
him in midfield, but even his 
team did not know that until 
the eve of the game. Thus 
Newcastle went into an impor¬ 
tant match not having once 
tried out a new formation. 

Whereas Barcelona have 
worked on their system since 
July, honing every aspect of 
the new demands of Van Gaal. 
Newcastle go into matches 
with little preparation in train¬ 
ing for whichever system they 
may adopt ami play mostly off 
die cuff, relying on individual 
s kills. 

It may work in the Premier¬ 
ship. but against thejeontinen- 
tal elite it frequently does not. 
Of England’s representatives 
in Europe, only Manchester 
United have a defined system 
that the players work on 
constantly in training, allow¬ 
ing them to feel comfortable 
with their tactics in matches. 

This lack of preparation is a 
throw-back to the past when 
physically strong English 
teams felt that they could 
simply turn up and hold an 
advantage. Now they are 
matched in every department 
by European rivals who are 
belter prepared tactically. 

It is something that 
Dalglish must quickly ad¬ 
dress, but for the present he 
has more pressing problems. 
Once again the paucity of his 
squad was exposed and with it 
the now increasingly pertinent 
question of why money has 
not been made available to 
address the situation? 

In his post-match analysis, 
the Newcastle manager dear¬ 
ly indicated that he needs to 
strengthen his squad, and the 
feeling persists that he is 
extremely frustrated at the 
lack of funds made available 
to do so, despite assurances 
when he took over at St James’ 
Park that money was avail¬ 
able. 

There was at least one 
brighter note for the immedi¬ 
ate future in the second-half 
performance of Aaron Hug¬ 
hes. the IB-year-dd central 
defender. Hughes made an 
impressive appearance as a 
second-half substitute against 
Barcelona and his perfor¬ 
mance drew praise from Bry¬ 
an Hamilton, the former 
Northern Ireland manager. 

“He’S going to be a really 
good player, no doubt about it. 
He’S a super kid, who wants to 
learn, and at 6ft he's already a 
great size for a centre half," 
Hamilton said. "He can play 
the ball out of defence well and 
is very level-headed and sensi¬ 
ble — a great pro." 




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Yawning g lor y Paul Grayson, the North amp to n , fly half, found the England training session yesterday somewhat 
will be no rest, though, for Nick Greenstock. who wffl replace Phil deGfanvillg for the match at Twickenham on S 


TV dispute may 
delay Lewis bout I cold 




By Srdojmar Sen, boxing correspondent 


LENNOX LEWIS’S bout with 
Evander Holyfield for the 
undisputed heavyweight 
championship of the world 
could be delayed indefinitely 
because of a wrangle between 
HBO and Showtime, two lead¬ 
ing American cable television 
companies. Both are claiming 
the right to show the bout It 
appears the matter can only be 
resolved by Holyfield taking a 
hand. . 

According to Showtime, its 
contract with Don King, Holy- 
field’s promoter, allows it to 
demand 30 days’ notice to 
negotiate for the contest and 
match a bid by any other 
television company. However, 
HBO is adamant that Lewis is 
contracted to appear exclu¬ 
sively on its chaimds- 

Panos Eliades, the head of 
Panix, the company promot¬ 
ing Lewis, said last night: “I’ve 
just spoken to HBO and they 
have put Showtime on notice 
that the fight can only be 
shown cm TVKO [HBOS pay 7r 
per-view arm]. 

“Everything was looking 
good, but then we ran into 
trouble when. Don King went_ 
to Showtime to ask them to 
waive their rights. They re¬ 
fused. And HBO naturally 
cannot be expected to budge 
either as they have.Lennox 
under exclusive contract 


"It is now up to Holyfield 
and Jim Thomas [Holyfield’s 
lawyer] to step in. King may 
be tied fo Showtime. but Hoiy- 
field isrit If Holyfield wants 
to fight Lennox, as we all think 
he does, he must tdl King that 
his contract with Showtime 
has nothing to do with him. 

“Even Seth Abraham [the 
president of Time-Warner 
Sport, the parent company or? 
HBO] is not too optimistic. He 
said ff Holyfield does not act 
the fight was unlikely to be 
made.” 

Eliades said one solution 
would be' to give the promo¬ 
tion to Panix, with King acting 
as a partner. 

Thomas has always said 
that Holyfield wants to fight 
Lewis because he wants ; to 
retire as undisputed champtoti 
and Lewis is the only heavy¬ 
weight of his era he has not 
met 

While confirming King has 
a right‘to stage Holyneld's 
. contests, Thomas also believes 
that if King, for any' reason, 
cannot act in the best interests 
of Holyfield, the cantract with 
the promoter could not pre¬ 
vent Holyfield from signing 
with another company. 

Thus Eliades’S plan for 
Panix to takeover the promo¬ 
tion is a possibility Holyfield 
could fall bock on. 


A CONGESTED 1998 cricket 
fixture list means that there is 
ho room for the match be¬ 
tween England A and The 
Rest, which has openedythe 
new season for foe past two ■ 
years and given the selectors 
an early opportunity to assess 
emerging talent. } 

In the game at Edgbaston 
last season. Ben HoUioaice: 
made such a good impression r 
that he won a place in foe ' 
Texaco Trophy series and 
went on to a full Test debut at 
Trent Bridge. 

“It's not a policy decision to ‘ 
drop the fixture, its mare of a • 
scheduling problem.” Tim ’ 
Lamb, chief executive of foe 
England and Wales Cricket 
Board, said yesterday. 

“We are starting the season 
a week earlier than normal 
because we want to give 
players a day off between a.; 
Test match and a possible vital 
one-day game. If you look at. 
foe fixtures, there is a day off 
between, foe end of foe second - 
Test at Lord’s and " foe 
NatWest Trophy first round; 
the England players deserve a 
break. 

"We did not think we could 
play the England A game even 
earlier because foe senior 
England squad only returns 
from the West Indies on April 
Hi ".We are not ruling foe 


By Our Sports Staff 

England A game out forever, - 
although I would have 
thought it unlikely to - take - 
place in 1999 because of the 
WoiM Cup-.* Y 
GfaStootgfh, who dairaed 
their first cxninly champion¬ 
ship since 1969 by bearing 
Somerses at Taunton in Sep¬ 
tember, begin their defence of 
the title against Gloucester¬ 
shire-one of foe pacesetters 
last season — at Bristol an 
April 17 before returning to • 
Cardiff to entertain Rent, wfilr- 
finished runners-up. ■ 

. . 'Sussex: the taiknders last 
season, will hope for better' 
things under their new cap¬ 
tain. Chris Adams, whose 
funner county, Derbyshire, 
visit Horsham on May 21. 


A varied international pro¬ 
gramme begins with foe three- 
match Texaco Trophy series 
against South Africa before 
the five-Test programme 
against foe same opponents 
starts at Edgbaston on June 4. 

Sri Lanka, holders of the 
World Cup. havebeen award¬ 
ed another one-off .Test but 
tills will be at the OvaL^- 
starting on. August 27, rather 
than at Lord’s as in tire past 

Surrey, emphatic winners 
against Kent in the Benson 
and Hedges Cup final last 
season, begin noncompetition 
on'April 28 against Hamp¬ 
shire while Essex,' the 
NatWest Trophy winners, 
travel to Cheshire for their 
first-round tie on June 24. 


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Referees to send themselves off 


I t is becoming common 
within football for players 
to call a strike as a protest 
about pay and conditions, bur 
referees? Never. In Spain, 
however, tire men in black are 
preparing to blow foe whistle 
on this weekend’s pro¬ 
gramme. 

The men everyone in foot¬ 
ball loves to hate are striking, 
not about their fee of £500 a 
match, but because they have 
taken to heart the constant 

criticism that they naturally 
arouse. 

It all began with an official 
complaint by Miguel Ros. the 
president of Valencia, who 
sent videos to the Spanish 
Football Federation in sup¬ 
port of danns that referees arc 
biased against his team. 

It has grown out of a0 
proportion, because in Spain 
there are rather exaggerated 


David Maddock reports cm a strike threat 
by Spain’s much-criticised menin black 


regional di fferences, particu¬ 
larly between Basques, Cata¬ 
lans and Madrilcnas, and. this 
has led to daims of regional 
bias. There is intense suspi¬ 
cion every time a northern 
referee offia a tes for a south¬ 
ern team — and vice versa. 

It finally came to a head last 
Saturday when B arc elona 
were venomous in their criti¬ 
cism of Alfonso Perez BunuQ. 
who officiated in their match 
with Ovidea They had a 
point Fernando Couto was 
blatantly poshed to the 
ground by an Ovidea for¬ 
ward. and when he picked the 
ball up for the anticipated free 
kick be was dismissed for 
deliberate handball 


AH hell broke loose, but- 
now the referees are calling 
fouL They te*ie refused., to- 
officiate for tin^weekend^ 
p r o gramm e. e/x have even 
called VkSorismo Armimatbe 
president of tire referees’asso¬ 
ciation. a traitor because he 
’ has attempted to broker a 
solution. Angel VtQaiV the 
president of tire Spanish Foot¬ 
ball Federation, has returned 
to Madrid early from a Uefa 
meeting in Brussels in an 
attempt to avoid the calamity 
of a lost p rogramme, which 
would cost more than £5 
mil lio n in lost revenue. 

TVE, the state broadcasting 
’ company, which .covets the 
Spanish league, is desperate 


fora rotation and it appears it 
wiD get its way. Even if the 
referees stay true to form and 
refuse to change their minds.. 
tire matches will go ahead 
with amateurs from regional 
leagues taking thdr place 
. Predictably, < the _ critical 
coaches who moused tbe-fr#-* 
erees* passion in the first place -; 
have not been sympathetic 
Many have said, that ’foe 
amateur? will do a better job, 
and Louis van Gaal. foe 
Barcelona coadi. went one 
step further. .. 

He has.been an outspoken 
critic of referees mid his 
comments yesterday raised 
tire spectre of another strike. 
“The referees have not oonsid- 
ered what they have been 
saying about the pfayerstand 
especially foe coaches,” he 
safeC “Maybe we can go on- 
strike in protest,” 


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